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> whereas Google can - and will - give your local gestapo your photo roll

Sounds[0] familiar[1]...

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351

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Not with ADP enabled, which is new.

End-to-end encryption can only be trusted up to a point when Apple owns both ends.

There are very steep legal penalties for lying about it, and it’s not available in China, so on balance I think it’s a reasonable risk, especially since Android makes no such promises.

Android is not a cloud service like iCloud. Fundamentally it will not make any promises about the encryption of it's services.

That being said, I can use open-source projects like Syncthing or Owncloud to handle my syncing, and skip the whole mutual trust part. Though I'm sure the NSA does a wonderful job auditing Apple's private codebase, for whatever sense of security that offers.

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