SDKs: A Loophole That Turns Your Apps into Spies
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
I get that maybe they are trying to simplify things for non-software people, but this seems a poor attempt.
This is quite possibly the poorest attempt to explain something technical since the Internet was described as a "series of tubes".
If the OP posted this to point out the ridiculousness of the article, great and thank you. If they posted it to promote the evils of SDKs, then, well...