Trusting Companies

As I kept scrolling through the different blog posts people have made, I noticed that quite a bit were about privacy concerns. Most of them had to do with the "eavesdropping" devices that we keep in our homes like Alexas and Siris. Also, quite a bit were concerned over the fact that they really could be eavesdropping at any given moment. So then why do we own these devices? Why do we keep them in our homes? The answer is simple it's because we trust the companies. If you don't trust a company then you wouldn't buy from it would you? So how far are we willing to extend our trust? How much trust do we give companies and corporations? Well we already give them so much of our trust and some of us are honestly not aware of it. Do any of us honestly read all the terms and conditions? In one of the articles, I read how sometimes by signing these or clicking yes, you give away a lot of your own rights to privacy obviously. What some of them say is that the company can share your data with third parties and law enforcement. I believe that we should take a step back when coming across these issues because we put most of our trust in our devices and their companies into not invading our privacies. We should also be careful to which companies we accept the terms and conditions at times because we are releasing our privacy most of the time without realizing how much of it. Now some argue well, even if you don't agree with the terms, you still have to accept them. And well yeah, that is a very solid point. So in a way are we forced to agree to these since there isn't anything we can do about it? Or is there something that can be done?