We, the people, cannot regulate NSA activities we never knew about. We couldn't protest Apple and Google's warrantless Push Notification system until Wyden blew

We, the people, cannot regulate NSA activities we never knew about. We couldn't protest Apple and Google's warrantless Push Notification system until Wyden blew the whistle on it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-... You cannot ever expect any company to have a backbone, but you also can't expect the government to be perfectly honest. The real culprit is our software habits, and companies are the main driver in neutering your software freedom.