No one is saying that since my father wants the tv to just know what he wants to watch, that we should even attempt to make it that way. What the "lay people"

No one is saying that since my father wants the tv to just know what he wants to watch, that we should even attempt to make it that way. What the "lay people" want, if we are going to use this term, is the same privacy that the internet had 2 decades ago. It's not like things didn't work this way previously.