- Maintaining and increasing high level wealth, also Control

- Control, also profit

- Control, albeit in a less direct form than housing also data and profit

- The pretense of caring about privacy issues, so politics and control

- Profit/control

If you ask, "why?" for almost anything in today's society it'll come down to money/power, which are functionally mostly the same thing.

Exceptions exist sure, but they are called exceptions for a reason.

My perspective at least, i'm sure others think differently.