It was not an admission, it was a poorly thought out conversational device. He would have done much better to say, "good question".

In the same interview, in the very next sentence of the article:

> Osterloh then acceded that warning houseguests about Nest devices' recording capabilities is proper etiquette, stating that he already does so.

Given that he already warns his guests, he absolutely 100% certainly has thought about "all stakeholders", in quite that way.