Comment by squarefoot

$8.5M is just expenses to Apple, as would be to many others; certainly not working as a deterrent. To give a figure of the money involved: Vizio made more profits during Q3 2001 by selling advertising and users data than by selling TV sets: $57.3M vs $25.6M.

https://doctorow.medium.com/vizio-makes-more-money-spying-on...

Like it or not, users data is the new oil. I don't expect any related business to resist the temptation soon or later to jump to the dark side, if not because in a saturated market you either adapt or go belly up.