Are [computers] spyware? Yes, they are (2000) should be the title. If you use a computer, smartphone or IoT device then yes, it collects data, just as Facebook

Are [computers] spyware? Yes, they are (2000) should be the title. If you use a computer, smartphone or IoT device then yes, it collects data, just as Facebook runs ads. What's collected these days: Your social circle, every time you connect to the mobile network, when, which tower you connected to, tx/rx bytes, who you phoned, where the callee is located Whether you're in a car, walking (sensors) Whether your sleeping...(a recent Google blog post talked about a new "sleep tracking" API). You generate data as a human, interested parties (governments) collect that and will store it for the rest of time. I suspect there's a database of every URL visited by any human in the last 20 years. This is not surprising and should surprise nobody.