To be fair, "small convenience" is extremely reductive. The sum of human knowledge and instant communication with anyone anywhere the size of a graham cracker in your pocket is godlike power that anyone at any point in history would've rightly recognized as such

Mobile phones changed society in a way that not even Internet did. And they call it a "small conveninece".

You’re conflating the phone and camera with the actual data collection. So that’s not a good argument