Apple holds the master key when it comes to iCloud security, privacy

While your iCloud data is relatively safe from hackers, Apple has a master key to everything on its servers. This makes iCloud less than ideal for enterprise users and those wary of law enforcement, but security experts do have recommendations to help improve user privacy.

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Shouldn't you assume that anything you put up on any cloud service is susceptible to being seen, either by the provider or some 3rd parties?

You trade convenience for less security than storing your data only locally and assume this tradeoff to be always the case going in.