How about Apple has admitting they do exactly that? http://www.imore.com/yosemite-ios-8-spotlight-and-privacy-what-you-need-know http://www.imore.com/yosemite-

How about Apple has admitting they do exactly that? http://www.imore.com/yosemite-ios-8-spotlight-and-privacy-what-you-need-know http://www.imore.com/yosemite-ios-8-spotlight-and-privacy-wh... Yes, they say they properly anonymize and location-scrub this personal information before they store, aggregate and analyze it (and I have no reason to doubt that they're doing that, at least for their own use), but they are clearly collecting it. And if you're going to talk about things like vulnerability to government surveillance, just collecting it in the first place is more than enough to open that door.