What they can do with this info. I don't know how they can improve the malware protection without application hash or the system the app is running on. If the ISP, City, and State thing bothers you, use a VPN.
When you make a phone call or send a text on your cellphone, you don't think the carriers know the time, date, phone, carrier you use, and city, state where you made the call from?
Where did you see this? Data being routed through Akamai is not the same as sharing data with Akamai.
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If maps using your location data bothers you, you can disable location services. I don't know if Maps will still actually work but at least they won't know where you are...
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This is kind of misleading. I don't think this was done with malicious intent. I think it was for the purpose of simplification. Please see the following article on how the Messages encryption works. If the way Messages works is not secure enough for you, there are alternatives.
Without being able to verify encryption fingerprints, the service is technologically susceptible to wiretaps.
www.wired.com
I don't think they would have encrypted the XProtect stuff if no one complained. I also don't think there's anything worth hiding in that data but encrypted is still better than not encrypted.
Whether the iPhone throttling for phones with dying batteries was to induce their customers to buy new phones is debatable. Yes, they should have informed customers of this practice from the get go and made it optional from the start. But none of this sacrificed anyone's privacy.
In all your bullet points, I still haven't seen any real personal info being collect and/or sold.