> but lets hold all these multi-billion dollar business accountable too.

Oh, for sure. Microsoft is far-and-away one of the worst handlers of data, Yahoo and Google aren't much better either. This is a strawman though, and while it provides a nice bit of context around the rest of the status-quo for privacy, it doesn't absolve Apple of the fact that their security is half-theater, and the other half has convenient backdoors and workarounds for the involved parties. Given that the topic of this article is "Hardening MacOS" and not "Reviewing The Standards of Security in Big Tech", I chose to focus on Apple's particular issues, especially since the issues with those other companies are so well-documented on HN.

> It's not private for local users, and that is bad.

This is what I used that point to illustrate. Apple claims that privacy is a human right, yet apparently not all humans are created equal? It's a strange bit of hypocrisy, one they could easily avoid by refusing to negotiate with countries that take advantage of them.