This still requires the adversary to coerce your friends/family members into snitching on you - it involves effort and risk for them and doesn't scale.
Compromising a telemetry server is a one-off operation, would work at scale and is much less risky as the targets have no way to detect it.
Try to live in a society where everyone, including your closest family members, might collect such information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE