Do you not use any Amazon or Google product or service? A lot of people say this, but use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google Search, Amazon, etc. So your data isn't really that private if you use these, even with an iPhone.
I frequently get criticized by friends because I do use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram yet talk up Apple’s privacy all the time.
I do not use Google products, period. I was using Google search only up until very recently switching to DuckDuckGo. I deleted my Gmail and other Google products years ago.
I do buy on amazon and have amazon prime video but do not use any of their voice products.
I see a distinct difference between the Amazon / Google practices vs Facebook/instagram/twitter. With amazon/google, they simply take my privacy. By shear virtue of interacting with their products my privacy is taken. Example: just by talking in a room with an Alexa product, my voice is being recorded whether I am explicitly addressing Alexa or not.
The Facebook/instagram/twitter is a different beast. I choose to share whatever I want (or don’t want) with their products. When I post to Facebook, I make the conscious choice to provide information to Facebook. I do so with the knowledge and assumption that anything I post, regardless of privacy/audience settings is considered public. If I had never explicitly posted it to their service though, they’d never have it.
I know I know I’ll be called out on the above for 20 reasons that what I said is not actually correct and there exceptions and settings and all that. I’m well aware. It’s how I justify the difference to myself though. Comes down to:
With a social networking service, it is intuitively obvious that you are giving up privacy by participating in the network. That is what it is designed to do. With products like Alexa, it is not intuitively obvious. It’s intent is to reposed to voice commands to perform actions. There is no “share” piece of that that would intuitively imply that your privacy is being violated.