A closed source app that can update itself without notifying the user, and has full permissions? How is this any different from the 'loss of control' to America

A closed source app that can update itself without notifying the user, and has full permissions? How is this any different from the 'loss of control' to American institutes, like the Windows 8.1 / TPM 2.0 warning from the German government. Isn't this exactly the same thing?