I am surprised that evangelists keep thinking they are safe from the evil of big corporations.
If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine.
If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.
There's no reason to presume that the author 'thinks' that.
If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine.
If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.