>As technical users, we all know that every layer of software down to the hardware potentially has access to the data flowing on top of it.
Yeah, but that's a double sided sword. We're the only ones that have had to internalize the idea that incidental access to data will trying to monetize it as much as possible.
In the real world, there are huge expectation that incidental access to something _isn't_ license to do whatever you want with it. The standards of behavior everyone adheres to are almost always narrower than what the law allows. Regular people don't expect others to suddenly become the must ruthless motherfuckers possible just "because computers."
Yeah, but that's a double sided sword. We're the only ones that have had to internalize the idea that incidental access to data will trying to monetize it as much as possible.
In the real world, there are huge expectation that incidental access to something _isn't_ license to do whatever you want with it. The standards of behavior everyone adheres to are almost always narrower than what the law allows. Regular people don't expect others to suddenly become the must ruthless motherfuckers possible just "because computers."