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If you actually show people everything that Apple, Google, Facebook keep about them including those examples you'll get a very, very different reaction. One is seen the other is not and is denied. Nobody ever agreed to it. There was never informed consent. Show someone their private stuff and they'll freak out very, very hard indeed.

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And the best experiment to prove it, is this one. Nobody seems to care about all the cameras,sensors, tracking. Some even encourage it in the name of "Safety". But show them the camera and they freak out.

"Surveillance Camera Man": https://youtu.be/mP5ZVPwP7bg

Edit: It seems the link above has now been made private but that was not the case for many years. I will keep the comment as above for the sake of historical accuracy. More details here:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Surveillance_Camera_Man

Google Glass is another example of this. Everyone freaked out about it being a camera always at the ready. It was a more obvious camera, and that freaked people out - never mind that, if someone wanted to take a picture surreptitiously, the phone in their pocket was a much better choice.

(There were, of course, other factors that a reasonable person could be concerned about with Glass - "glassholes", for one, and providing more data to Google for another)

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