Excuse my naïveté, but who would actually work on such things? How can someone have such low moral standards to, day after day, build systems that secretly remove privacy from otherwise innocent people?
I have had friends suddenly get very selfish when the chance to get even $10 is available. I had a regular at a retail job once who came in every day... he asked to borrow $1 once to help pay for something. To avoid paying it back, he never returned, likely walking an extra several km to the next nearest store of the type every day. For $1