The Computer is Worse than a Vulcan

I was reading an article today regarding the idea of a software act. You can read the whole thing here.
The article is interesting but has a glaring error. Here’s the error: “Some spyware is also sold for the explicit purpose of helping spouses to spy on their partners, parents to spy on their children, and employers to spy on their workers. Such programs cause computers to betray the trust of their users”. Computers aren’t betraying the trust of their users. Computers are inanimate objects and as much as we’d like to humanize computers they are still just plastic and metal. The trust of users is betrayed by the spouse, the parent, the employer or anyone who puts spyware on a user’s computer.