You just noticed? It's been that way from the start

Frontier installs a Ring snitch on every one of their customers. Not at your door. On your modem. Inside. On you.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eZjOdAIqgzU

Here's a pretty decent video format explanation of just how fucked all of this is, in the US.

(Not exactly the same details and focus as the EFF article, but very similar)

Which is why I went with a Chinese empire brand, TP-Link rather than an American one. I’d rather the CCP hav my data than the US.