Genuinely odd article. I mean the observation is right, there's a baseline shift in privacy, but that's just... civilizational development. Modern technology just like virtually anything in modernity, at least when used collectively means you share data. Unlike ecological decline this is usually a voluntary trade off and not obviously bad. You can go and live off the grid. People make these choices because they don't value privacy as much as they value other things.

Calling this espionage is just a misuse of language because espionage is done with malicious and intent and without knowledge of the subject.

There's never a real argument in these articles about privacy that addresses the fact that most users, not because they're all trapped in some false consciousness, accept tools that give them some safety in exchange for privacy. If you ask people, do you want Microsoft to scan your stuff if it finds some malware most will just say yes. None of this is a scandal to the majority of users. Which is why there's never any outrage.