Every company does it, my young friend, but not as badly and blatantly as google(except maybe facebook). When a company is so ing awful at it that people are switching search engines in droves to like duckduckgo and their phone os is basically AIDS in your pocket, you can't defend it. Do a news search for "apple privacy" and "google privacy" and just look at the results. Why do you think so many gunmen and active shooters have iphones? The govt can barely hack that without ing it up
The smartphone biz peaked years ago and everyone is in a race for the gutter.