The original link says " Apple is quietly giving people ‘trust scores’ ". The implication of the current article is that apple are spying on people and giving people trust scores. Read the words from Apple - “device trust score”.
I’ll bet it’s a simple metric to see, as they say, approximately how many calls and emails the phone normally deals with and to treat the device as less trusted for financial transactions if it has been recently exhibiting abnormal behaviour. Not quite so scary if you start from the premise that Apple are trying to improve security rather than the premise that “Oh noes, the scary corporate is out to get us and subjugate us”.
