Some people still live in places where you can leave your doors unlocked and not worry.
Leave it to the tech industry to bring Internet of Shit locks to your doorstep.
Would you be upset if in the course of their unsolicited work, these white/grey hats found your wife's nudes in the digital equivalent of kicking over a rock? Full legal protection of course.
Ignore if they kept a copy for themselves for later use, they promised to delete them <wink>.
If you own a property where a million people live, that might not be a bad idea at all.
You're trying to say companies should have sole responsibility over their systems. I say, let them have sole legal and financial liability as well then.
The crime here is the tech. The companies aren’t to blame. Programmers and tech companies are. If there was no internet or “tech industry” we’d all be so much better off it’s painful to even contemplate.