You have some guts to call the article baseless and then claim "we" can trust Apple and Google.
Actually you can't trust them to manage the other things either. Google is notorious for abusing user data for advertising purposes and their dark patterns. Two recent investigations by the Norwegian data protection agency highlights this clearly.
Anything on iOS touching iCloud is assumed to be accessible to at least the government where the phone user resides. Their on-device privacy's much better, but the defaults are to use iCloud extensively.
Actually you can't trust them to manage the other things either. Google is notorious for abusing user data for advertising purposes and their dark patterns. Two recent investigations by the Norwegian data protection agency highlights this clearly.
Anything on iOS touching iCloud is assumed to be accessible to at least the government where the phone user resides. Their on-device privacy's much better, but the defaults are to use iCloud extensively.