> and have become quite normalised.

Enforcement agencies are asleep at the switch. Without any pressure to constrain them then these major corporations will stop at nothing.

> it should never be a consideration to willingly deceive your customers.

They don't see it that way. They just see it as a new profit stream that they're daring enough to capture.

Windows 11 OneDrive that just decides to backup files without consent was certainly daring.

Look I am computer savvy enough to "fix" Windows I can live with it but I advised my mom to get an Apple laptop.

> Enforcement agencies are asleep at the switch.

They are not asleep. They were intentionally weakened, step by step.