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Ironically, it's government that should be protecting the privacy of its citizens against the pervasive surveillance big tech has essentially normalised and monetised.

And so monetised has it become that any attempt by government to reign in the pervasive surveillance, it could potentially have a noticeable effect on the employment rate as all those "smartest people on the planet working very hard on getting better click rates" in the big tech surveillance industry are legislatively made redundant. Bad politics.

This would also dry up a fair portion of the ... lobbyist funding ... governments receive.

Plus governments handily use these private enterprises profiting from pervasive surveillance to take the pulse of the citizenry for the purposes of staying in power - the very reason they're in government in the first place.

So, yeah, Government, as they are, are a significant part of the problem from a number of angles.