To an extent but you can turn it off – see the big fat off button in “Apple Intelligence & Siri”
They very publicly got shit on for that, last I checked they are not doing it
yes (mostly[1])
The closest thing to CSAM that you would get with an anti-CSAM scanner that runs on-device is a hash collection that hardly could be called CSAM
tl;dr people overhate on apple and just make shit up rather than calling out the actual issues or mix in real issues among conspiratorial bs
They have been in hot water around collecting anonymous analytics around app store usage and a couple other first-party apps even if you opt out of analytics broadly ↩︎