Beyond "Apple really protects your privacy", there is the reality: Apple employees who shared private photos from a phone that was being repaired.
Note that this is not specific to Apple, since last year there was a pretty big scandal at one of the biggest computer repairers in the US: Employees were happily dipping into the private files of the computers they were entrusted with.

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