Not only bad actors would be concerned. There is a rather small but vocal minority that values privacy extremely high. They make noise, even when a threat of identification, or of siphoning out any consequential information, is extremely low.

To avoid sabotaging their own platform, Intel should remember about that, and give no food for bad PR.

As they write in employment agreements, you should avoid any real conflicts of interests, and also any appearance of conflicts of interests, because if it gets reported in media, but you end up completely clean and conflict-free, the hard-to-repair damage to public perception already would have been done.