Saying "backwards" implies a single direction causality, when it's more like a bidirectional synergy where each supports the other (like "chicken and egg" for t

Saying "backwards" implies a single direction causality, when it's more like a bidirectional synergy where each supports the other (like "chicken and egg" for that matter). You seem to be attributing all commercial surveillance to the desires of the government, which is obviously not true given that the business reasons for surveillance stand on their own. It is however far too easy to write off those business reasons as "legitimate", while ignoring that they form their own systems of control.