The people behind these institutions and initiatives know exactly what they are doing, and know exactly what they are doing is wrong. They hide behind phony mission statements that sound altruistic, and technology laws which are easy to sidestep, workaround, or simply ignore due to lack of enforcement.

The mystique and misguided faith we have in technology in and of itself to be an agent of positive change is the naivete which allows these companies to place profits over people.

The lack of leadership working to preserve privacy and deliberate wholesale deception and psychological manipulation of the public at large is appalling.

The only realistic shift will have to be in the form of a new grass roots movement, but the odds of such a thing occurring for all intents and purposes seems rather low.