It’s been axiomatic for a while that if you care about privacy and security, a generally paranoid outlook is helpful where telecommunications are concerned. Just assume that unless it’s e2e encrypted and you trust the recipient to be as paranoid, that someone else is reading your communications. Assume that if it has a microphone and an internet connection someone else could use it to listen in. Assume 5-Eyes partners archive absolutely everything and may someday have a smart enough system to really use the data. Assume FB and Google and your ISP are spying on you and building profiles of you.

I’m not sure what else to say, but aside from people who have a stake in Google, or take skepticism to illogical extremes, this news can’t be surprising.