Why are all us HN old timers in here arguing about this

I thought this was settled

People are walking around with self spy devices and putting them everywhere and giving all their private data to corpos.

That’s not new, we know it happens, we know companies use “anonymized” data for advertising. Its in public records for large companies balance sheets and there are thousands of data brokers who live exclusively on this data.

There are multiple compelling and popular documentaries about this.

What’s the push back here?