>This is not someone "looking in the window" this is two parties (you and the company providing some service or product to you) needing to exchange data so each can do their work properly. It's even worse. I can see the person looking through my window. I can close the blinds. At OS level I don't have that chance. I can't constantly monitor the outgoing traffic and I can't check the consequences of every update.

>Those "privacy standards" you cite that have existed for centuries... that's not a thing. It seems to be based on falsifying the history and present of how humans organize and govern systems out of ignorance. Data gathering IS the "normal". Ever thought that you and parent live in different countries with a different value for privacy? Even a "simple" thing like a census in Germany led to Constitutional Court ruling and the establishment of a new right, that of informational self-determination. And that was in the eighties and it was about a census in the form of a total survey to be carried out door-to-door by civil servants or agents of the public administration.

Now you private companies fathering more data more often than ever before. So it's worse, calling that "normal" is strange.