Who said they were collecting data?What Trend Micro use the collected data for?
The EULA talks about potential personal info being shared with them because to use their website reputation service, you have to send them the URL for lookups against their database, for instance.
The EULA also talks about email-related data, which visibly does not apply to Asuswrt as there are no SMTP/POP/IMAP filtering feature in AiProtection. EULA is devised to be wide-encompassing, most likely to cover other services that aren't used by Asuswrt.
To this day, nobody has ever provided actual evidence as to what information was "shared" with them. Everyone is basing it on a EULA, which is a legal document, not a technical writeup.
If Trend Micro's goal was to gather as much user information as possible, why did they object to their engine being used on non-Asus routers, leading to the current situation where people compiling code from my repo cannot have fully working Trend Micro features anymore?