Could also be weasly wording here. They can still truthfully make that statement even if Apple themselves have decided to be pro-active and decided to give out bulk data without receiving any orders before. As the Snowden leaks showed, we should be really careful about how we read the words from large companies about data.
Difference between the conspiracy about making people sick with 5G vs companies helping NSA and other US government entities to spy on people, is that we have evidence of the latter happening, while nothing about the former.