The problem is how you define those terms: “spying” has a strong value judgement and opinions vary widely, as does the threshold for what people believe constitutes informed consent.
If you go down and try pin those terms, you will get "language layers" that will try to go as close to the line as possible and when they cross it argue the definitions.
I think you meant “language lawyer” or, given the context, just “lawyer” but it’s not really what I was talking about: my point was just that projects can define what they collect, what they do with it, and how to control it, and they will still get angry rants from strangers on the internet. Analytics is a really useful tool but it is also a lightning rod for criticism and conspiracy theories.
