> Defenders will say "they have to comply with the law" but there's compliance and then there's compliance.

More importantly, there's not spying on the user in the first place. The law doesn't force Google to spy, nor does it force Apple to lock consumers (for sure not "owners") out of their phones, so that they're left helpless when the CCP bans VPN and protest apps [1] (not to imply spying from Google alone isn't bad, before any other actors get involved).

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-pulls-mapping-app-used-by-h...