You used to be able to tell what every process was doing on your computer. Nowadays there are so many processes running and they all have tons of child processes that you can’t tell what is doing what.
And media analysis is like the least creepy shit Apple does. They also analyse your social networks (based on who you interact with using Apple services), and the database where they store that shit has labels for eg. political affiliations etc. (can’t remember off-hand which of the many many Apple spyware dbs it was. One of the sqlite databases under ~/Library
in any case. Might have been the appropriately named IntelligencePlatform
databases, but I’m too lazy to check right now)
Even on Linux where it’s easy to find what any running service does, the are so many