Especially considering that pretty much every network capable piece of closed hardware/software we already use phones home regularly, officially for improvement

Especially considering that pretty much every network capable piece of closed hardware/software we already use phones home regularly, officially for improvements and security updates, although a lot of them have been already caught multiple times exfiltrating personal data (phones, "Smart" TVs, closed operating systems and software, assistants, etc). We don't even need to fall to any government conspiracy theory to imagine what is going to happen since selling bulks of personal data and profiling potential customers is already a huge business, and frankly I wouldn't believe any company promising to respect my privacy. I want either 100% open code and hardware, or simply stop talking about privacy and security because there would be none of either.