Broadly speaking, if something is closed source and connected, it phones home. Whether it can collect sensitive private data about the user is just a matter of

Broadly speaking, if something is closed source and connected, it phones home. Whether it can collect sensitive private data about the user is just a matter of when. The sooner common users realize that, the safer they can be in the future. Unfortunately, spying on users is a well paid business, therefore even without involving 3 letter government agencies and/or conspiracy theories, we should expect every hardware/software manufacturer to attempt to profit from that, if not because pretty much everyone else in the field is doing the same already.