Having worked for a couple carriers, network operators, and the back end data processor for them, I agree that the carriers are fighting and losing the data war

Having worked for a couple carriers, network operators, and the back end data processor for them, I agree that the carriers are fighting and losing the data wars. They did make a lot of money on surveillance, but it is dropping as more coms are encrypted. I don't quite understand why people feel comfortable with a $3T company holding all their data, but I guess it is just in fewer baskets. People like me who know too much only use VOIP and prepaid burner SIM's on phones that always run VPN and airplane mode 98% of the time. It is way cheaper and more secure.