No, someone a lot more powerful did:

"Member of the German parliament, Manuel Höferlin, who serves as the chairman of the Digital Agenda committee in Germany, has penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, pleading Apple to abandon its plan to scan iPhone users' photo libraries"

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/18/german-politician-lette...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/17/germany-writes-to...

Along with

"Apple photo-scanning plan faces global backlash from 90 rights groups"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-photo-scan...

And 487 other articles, reports, fusses that went against Apple's plans.