Comment by nicce

We were talking about silent things here. So there is no prior expectation for them? Silently expanding scan for every file for example would count still overstepping similar way for the most of the people. Because that is abuse, and usually there is zero tolerance. Apple has avoided marks of the abuse in the past pretty well.

But anyway, Photos spotlight, Files app or Siri are already scanning you files and getting metadata. Metadata is even stored to iCloud to be able to keep sync process working. There are excuses if you want to make them.