Especially considering that pretty much every network capable piece of closed hardware/software we already use phones home regularly, officially for improvements and security updates, although a lot of them have been already caught multiple times exfiltrating personal data (phones, "Smart" TVs, closed operating systems and software, assistants, etc).
We don't even need to fall to any government conspiracy theory to imagine what is going to happen since selling bulks of personal data and profiling potential customers is already a huge business, and frankly I wouldn't believe any company promising to respect my privacy. I want either 100% open code and hardware, or simply stop talking about privacy and security because there would be none of either.
4G (or maybe even 2 and 3G ...) would probably be better at that than 5G will be. 5G will have high capacity and very short range. Great for video calls and streaming YouTube if you're close to a tower, not great for the toaster trying to phone home from the basement.
You're thinking about the radio. I'm talking about 5g iot devices handing off data to other 5g devices to relay.
5G will have greater capacity at the same range, PLUS the high capacity, short range slice of frequencies (5G NR). It does not live aside from 4G, it enhances it within the same frequencies and adds some extra ones as well.
5G have as good if not better range than 4G. 5G MMwave have very small range but sub6 5G have great range depending on which frequencies its deployed on.
Not per se, but gives a really powerful tool in the hands of those willing to use it for wrong purposes.
Don't get me wrong. Technically speaking I love the idea of 5G pervasive connectivity in small devices; it's just fantastic, but this development really call for more openness both in hardware and software to ensure those devices aren't being used to mine common people personal data.