that is funny right there....
>With private services, you're more or less out of luck,
In a way, but last I checked google nor facebook are legally empowered to Arrest, Put me in a Cage, Raid my Home at 3am, Shoot my dog, Detonate Explosives in my children face or even Kill Me.
So yes google violates your privacy, to sell you shit, the government violates your privacy to put you in a cage or kill you. I am more concerned with the latter...
In other words are they doing what we have in essence ask them to do for us, by and large?
It's like saying, well, we don't care why facebook collects all that information, they may as well sell it all to any bidder.
I am a libertarian, I view 99% of government as immoral and unethical
Since I do not get my ethics or morality from the government or law I do not view simply breaking one of the millions of laws as criminal, a crime to me has to have a complaining victim, no victim no crime.
Thus the state enforcing the thousands of victim-less crimes, or even crimes "against the state" are immoral, and unethical.
Further I find the governments use of ALPR data to build massive on going databases that are used for government and private uses to be offensive.
It is sad you do not