I agree with this in spirit, but we use this language for inanimate objects that lack agency all the time. If I built a car and let it roll down a hill with no one in it and it hit a person, we would say “the car ran a person over”. This does not imply agency on the car’s part, and it does not imply that I am not responsible.

It has been open as a tourist destination, he wants to reopen it as a prison. I went there when I was a kid.

That is opt-in. Doesn’t make it ethical but it is a much different question. I can always leave my phone at home but I can’t opt out of Flock cameras.