I really wish we would stop being distracted by what corporations are doing with our data, and shift the focus to what governments are doing with it.

It's true of course that corporations often collect and sell this data to the government, so we should focus instead on the data collection at it's source - on our devices. However the data is collected, and whoever collects it - the government will get and use it for their own purposes.

Corporations just want to sell you more stuff. The government wants to control you.