It used to be that you could rely on a piece of software to be good. If it phoned home, we had a name for it - spyware. Almost everyone derided it. Now, you c

It used to be that you could rely on a piece of software to be good. If it phoned home, we had a name for it - spyware. Almost everyone derided it. Now, you can expect ~100% of closed source software to have surveillance built in. Open source is better, but there's still a lot around. That extends not only to software. Cars, TVs, tractors, whatever. I'm not even middle aged. The transition happened over around 10-15 years.