this is similar to the scramble for health data during covid where a number of groups tried (and some succeeded) at using the crisis to squeeze the toothpaste out of the tube in a similar way, as there are low costs to being reprimanded and high value in grabbing the data. bureaucratic smash-and-grabs, essentially. disappointing, but predictable to anyone who has worked in privacy, and most people just make a show of acting surprised then moving on because their careers depend on their ability to sustain a gallopingly absurd best-intentions narrative.

your hacked SMS messages from AT&T are probably next, and everyone will be just as surprised when keystrokes from your phones get hit, or there is a collection agent for model training (privacy enhanced for your pleasure, surely) added as an OS update to commercial platforms.

Make an example of the product managers and engineers behind this, or see it done worse and at a larger scale next time.