Reality is nuanced in a way that nothing was actually listening, but there were also other stuff going on that people don't expect, like credit card companies s

Reality is nuanced in a way that nothing was actually listening, but there were also other stuff going on that people don't expect, like credit card companies selling purchase history data, or companies buying data sets to aggregate, correlate and de-anonymize them. But the fact remains that whenever there's something, it's going to be abused.