No, BigTech are the biggest data-miners in the industry as they have daily regular and "unrestricted" access to our lives through the devices we use everyday. T

No, BigTech are the biggest data-miners in the industry as they have daily regular and "unrestricted" access to our lives through the devices we use everyday. Thanks to our mobile phones, computers and the internet, they even have insights and personal data from all the other services we use. BigTech also purchases and partners with data brokers. And all of them do sell their data to the government (as the new government data center in Utah highlight, the PRISM program is thriving). BigTech is the most successful privatisation of intelligence gathering in the history of our world, and I'd say even a monument to capitalism. While a triumph for capitalism, this is unfortunately also really bad for us ordinary citizens in a democracy as it upsets the balance of power between the rich and our elected representatives. The last time this happened, and a government fought to correct this balance with them (the British vs the East india Company), the British empire itself crumbled. If left unchecked, I fear history will repeat itself again with our current and sole superpower too.