Ah, but it is acceptable to the majority for Apple & Google, and now, with a vengance, MS. Or the ISPs and telecoms. Or the IoTs. But not for the guv, unless a 'good guy' is in charge.
Copy that.
Copy that.
You, like many others in this thread, are trying to point out hypocrisy and ideological inconsistencies where there are none, as some sort of "gotcha" so you can justify the belief that your political opponents are somehow worse than you are.
To explain my chagrin, the problem I have witnessed over the last 15 years is there are huge inconsistencies in peoples' daily choices and the providers know all the right buttons to push to increase adoption and use highly specialized marketing, over-verbose ToS's and NDA's to evade scrutiny. Lobbyists and "Privacy Committes" make new laws to make previously illegal practices now legal.Your willingness to curtail noe or be less concerned based on whom is currently collecting is a perfect example(IMO) of rationalizing choices. Every(sic) service provider now treats data collection as a part of any standard business model. Ever read Gmail's ToS? As far as I have seen, it is the only ToS that states plainly in the first paragraphs exactly what they are doing. And yet, informed people rationalize that choice for a variety of reasons.