You're never going to get rational discourse on this topic because people who don't know what they are talking about have poisoned the conversation by using bom

You're never going to get rational discourse on this topic because people who don't know what they are talking about have poisoned the conversation by using bombastic language. E.g. "spy cam" that "scans tax documents" does not bear any resemblance to the events in question. People willingly gave their tax returns to H&R Block, who intentionally programmed their site to marshal that data into custom dimensions of Google Analytics.