I'm not sure what you mean here: Are you agreeing and layering on other depressing considerations, or are you downplaying that kind of privacy-break as having no effect?

It does matter. Imagine if Anne Frank (or Anna Franco) is hiding in my attic, and then myself or a guest accidentally takes a picture, perhaps without disabling the internet connection.

There's also the the social-graph it allows someone to construct:

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...