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> ...and privacy (no idea what my device is sending).

This is where Libre/Open Source software comes in and why it plays a vital role in creating an ethical connection between people and softwares. There is literally no other way around this. Open code, secure transmission, harsh accountability on violations.

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Open source is great, but using source code is an awful way to figure out what something is transmitting, compared to actually looking at what it transmits.

Lets be pragmatic here though - it's not reasonable to expect all software to be open source, nor is it reasonable to expect that only people who run a fully FOSS stack be able to inspect network traffic on their computer.

By definition the insistence that it should be possible to do something that's actually impossible is not pragmatism.

If you don't actually control the box, it can do whatever it pleases. It doesn't need an IETF Standards Track RFC, it can just choose to do it and you can't stop it.

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