Company A May decide telemetry exposes too much internal information to a potential competitor.
Company B May decide that telemetry does not release anything they want kept secret.
Those are subjective opinions. If I want the data to be kept secret and somebody takes it without my explicit approval, that is a privacy violation. If I don’t care, it’s not. Same thing with spying. If I deem it a secret, it is now spying to take it from me.
Yes, words have meanings.
Company A May decide telemetry exposes too much internal information to a potential competitor.
Company B May decide that telemetry does not release anything they want kept secret.
Those are subjective opinions. If I want the data to be kept secret and somebody takes it without my explicit approval, that is a privacy violation. If I don’t care, it’s not. Same thing with spying. If I deem it a secret, it is now spying to take it from me.