It is mine in name only. It is like a private bedroom where somebody else can come at any moment and inspect any aspect of my life and I can't stop him and sometimes I can't even know he is inspecting me at the moment.
Yes, there is some information leakage, but nothing like ‘inspecting any aspect of your life’.
But more to the point, you own the computer. You chose the operating system. If you don’t like what it does, buy something else. You can sell the one you don’t like, because it is yours.
