This does not make much sense. If they cared about these issues they won't be working for these companies in the first place. Infact the posturing about libert

This does not make much sense. If they cared about these issues they won't be working for these companies in the first place. Infact the posturing about liberty and freedom by the early software community and the whole 'hacker' mythology contrasted with what's happening on the ground now looks like attention seeking behavior. These systems are not being designed by non technical people. Engineers have sold out the rest of society to create more and more invasive spyware and are happy to hand wave it away.