Ok, but how could we really trust these companies? I'm not saying to "give up," but aside from "pinkie swear we'll never make a mistake or exploit a loophole a

Ok, but how could we really trust these companies? I'm not saying to "give up," but aside from "pinkie swear we'll never make a mistake or exploit a loophole again," how can companies be trusted with the most intimate details of people's lives (and the lives of people who never signed up but get dragged in incidentally), such that it becomes trivial to deceive or even obviate or impersonate them? And how to get away from this being normal, so every company with an IT department or cloud subscription has their own spy agency? Especially since even deletion policies may let them hang onto data for years, in which time divisions can change hands or laws change. And also, they've become embedded in state security policies as a sort of branch of the secret police.