[xani_]

> If my tools are gathering data behind my back and not telling me, that is troubling. I should not be liable for this, as it is an abuse of trust that would result in me no longer using the tool had I known prior.

Well, you can sue tool makers if they lied to you.

But ability to just say "but I didn't know" would be catastrophic to any accountability, as nobody would even read a manual to be able to plausibly claim that they didn't knew.

In similar way you can't go shoplifting then claim you didn't know that was a crime.