If your threat model includes any level of the US government, and that includes women seeking abortions in states where it is illegal, you cannot rely on US-based company's tech to protect you from the law.
If your threat model includes any level of the US government, and that includes women seeking abortions in states where it is illegal, you cannot rely on US-based company's tech to protect you from the law.
If you're in a developing country and you engage in activism against some questionable project by the state owned mining company, you're probably not going to get the full force of the NSA directed against you. But your country's domestic intelligence agency may be interested, and they probably only have off the shelf spyware to work with.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
I haven't heard of any changes to this to-date.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
That seems pretty clear to me, but maybe it’s misleading?