Attacks on Israel clearly show that Iran - just like Russia - sees the civilian population as a legitimate target. Question of tactics remains, of course.
And even worse, because they don’t only hurt performance and usability, but they also report private information. Even is the data is sent anymously, the url itself may contain private information. For instance, Google themselves still allow sharing documents via a “private” link which is then stored on some monitoring service. And some of those services allow anyone access and search these urls for some premium plan.
I don’t believe the users are made aware of this kind of usage of their network. In fact, I’m pretty confident that most extension burry this purposefully In such small letters it’s impossible to understand. Which, for me, qualifies them as malware.
Understanding other’s feelings seems to be only part you’re focusing on, but it’s not enough to have empathy. The dictionaries you’ve linked to have each a list of skills and I don’t think each stands on its own. It’s a combinations of those.
I’m sure AI already have, and cenrtainly will have it perfected in the future, an ability to “understand” feelings and emotions if I use the term “understanding” the way you do with sociopaths - the ability to analyze and act on. Certainly it can not be called empathetic.