You raise the question I ask every time I spin up a VPS on one of the providers I use; do I trust this company? There's still no clear rules that say Apple, Aka

You raise the question I ask every time I spin up a VPS on one of the providers I use; do I trust this company? There's still no clear rules that say Apple, Akamai, AWS, etc have to protect me or my data if the right people start asking questions. I'm less worried about any hackers these days, since my dumb little projects aren't likely worth their time, but more worried about gov'ts that are increasingly surveillance-oriented who have an active interest in categorizing people into boxes. If I want to run a private alternative to Discord, for example, where I can safely express my dissent among friends and family who also have access, I can't really do it without going to the trouble of setting up my own hardware, first. Companies like Apple do try to protect their users, and I applaud them for that, but what happens when (not if) they flip?