It isn't an either/or. If you give data to Google, Facebook or other data-accumulating companies, you're giving it to the government. The reverse is not true,

It isn't an either/or. If you give data to Google, Facebook or other data-accumulating companies, you're giving it to the government. The reverse is not true, so if only the government is surveilling you, you can still stay out of some of the corporate databases.