I mean, anything made by Google collects “troves of data.” That’s their whole business model. It’s what we all agreed to in 2004 when Gmail started rolling out. Our privacy for 1GB of email storage (at the time; it’s gotten a little more). And we were fine with it then. And we were fine with it when Google made (bought, but whatever) an operating system and did the same thing. And it’s been that way for decades.

You know what you’re getting with Google. Let’s not pretend Google isn’t collecting data from one of its platforms.