Given the iPhone's lack of fully integrated "Google Now" Apple seems notably less likely to be able to provide watchers with structured data that 'knows what you're doing before you do' than, say, an Android phone syncing with Google, or Blackberry phone with RIMM's cloud (in fact, we know RIMM made govt data pipe agreements).
The only mention of "iPhone" in the article is in the headline. Nothing in the article itself singles out Apple.
For today's TLDR crowd, the headline scanning takeaway is "damn, guess I better get any phone that's not an iPhone" when that's not the author's intent at all.
I'd consider this headline actually harmful because it's not the device that's doing anything to you or with your data. It's not Apple, it's not Android, and it's not even Google Now software, no matter how potentially scary that big data insight might be.
It's the corporations, the "all American alliance" he describes, that you sign ToS with, and the senators and representatives we elect to oversee the agencies that oversee them. Put the spotlight where it belongs. Put that in the headline.