Telemetry is not remote access, much less root access, which does not even exist on typical phones. Phone apps are sandboxed by the OS and can only collect info

Telemetry is not remote access, much less root access, which does not even exist on typical phones. Phone apps are sandboxed by the OS and can only collect information that the OS allows them to collect. It may of course be possible to abuse this limited information for tracking (and that abuse should absolutely be called out when it occurs), but it’s not the same thing.