[windexh8er]

Who's to say they're not the same? We know for a fact that the government uses the "ad targeting privacy" to ingest data on civilians. There's countless articles on resale of those data via data brokers. Conflating the two doesn't minimize the argument IMO. As a counter perspective I would surmise that it would piss people off more if and when a government uses that data against its own citizens. People seem to be grasping the concept that having all of this data in someone else's hands is a bad thing. And while I don't feel the urgency is where it should be, I do feel as though we've made some progress.