I see what you did there.

I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

You dirty root preserver.

Panominism.

(edit: I made this up, probably.)

I’m not saying it’s the answer to all of this, but read up on the philosophical differences between the Free Software and Open Source movements.

Let me see if I can slip these into your brain: w/b and j/k.

The article literally addesses this, citing sources.

I see what you did there.