It would be harder for Apple employees to do too. Have you tried the Mail search? I can’t find things that are definitely there.

> Have you tried the Mail search? I can’t find things that are definitely there.

I hate the Mail search, because I know it misses all kinds of things. I have to go open up my gmail account in the web browser to find things that I know exist.

That's not unique to Apple. The same is definitely true of GMail.

> Apple has paid a multi-million dollar settlement to a woman whose photos and videos were shared online by technicians repairing her iPhone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399627

That's kinda like saying that Best Buy shared photos and videos from a customer's iPhone. Different from data ingested during normal operation and being processed by the corporation.