[OneLeggedCat]

> "While not every investigated company committed the same privacy violations, the conclusion is clear: companies prioritized profits over privacy. "

Why wouldn't they? A capitalist shareholder system requires that they do exactly this, to whatever extent it does not impact sales.

It's on citizens to demand regulation, and yet in the US, a probable majority of voting citizens don't like regulation, and think that government is too large or too untrustworthy. Combine that with the control that corporations have over our politicians, and further combine that with low public understanding of the issue, and there is nothing realistic that can be done.

So I consider surveillance capitalism to be permanent in the US. Regardless of the fact that most people don't like being spied on and manipulated constantly. Perhaps some really large, really bad event could galvanize the public, but I doubt it.