I'm trying to follow the thread, are you saying that people who don't want to have every mouse click tracked or their private home network, outside the work VPN searched, are behaving in an entitled manor?
It’s not about entitlement, justice or any of that. This is capitalism.
It is about raw power and pragmatism and what one can get away with. When the employee has the upper hand as in a hot market, they have some wiggle room. When the employer has the upper hand, the landscape shifts accordingly.
Unions are unpopular in our industry, but are typically how employees in most sectors have increased their power.
Employer cartels and the state are how employers increase theirs.
Adam Smith covered it all about 250 years ago in the Wealth of Nations, a fantastic read if you can stomach the archaic writing style.