> many of their services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data)
Not just with loss of privacy, they also pay with increased cost of goods and services that are used to pay for the advertisement
> Governments could encourage the emergence of new services by opening up more of their own data vaults or managing crucial parts of the data economy as public infrastructure, as India does with its digital-identity system, Aadhaar
Since we are worried about privacy, let's give government the power to identify and track individuals based on "ten fingerprints and two iris scans" [1]