Comment by Aurornis

This comes up in every thread but nobody can advance an argument about how this passes the basic conspiracy theory test:

If they’re vacuuming up all the IP that comes in even when the user sets it to off, it must be going into a giant data store somewhere. There must be a large number of engineers and managers involved in all of the processes that get the data from the client to the cloud to the data store, all of whom are bought into this conspiracy. For this to work, all of them must always keep the secret forever and never leak any incriminating evidence anywhere.

Having a damning and easily provable secret hanging over the company would be an easy way for any former employee to leak it to the press and sink the stock price when they go public, making a huge profit by shorting the stock and wiping out gains before the insider lockup expires.

You really have to believe a lot of people, including ex-employees and any disgruntled employees they fired, are so committed to keeping the secret for some reason and that management is so short-sighted that they’re taking a company destroying risk for some marginal, minuscule improvement in their training set.