>The only answer to the privacy and security question is to be principled enough

I like this answer. Maybe this course of action won't be sufficient but I like taking responsibility to do what you can first of all.

Folks here worship the free market and here's a corporation making use of data that is freely provided (but perhaps not used in expected ways), much in the very same way Facebook, Google, what have you, use data that is freely provided to make big bucks.

There is some outcry, but in general, software developers are extremely happy about massive wage increases across the industry, due to companies like Facebook and Google, while crapping on these same companies as often as possible, in web forums where it doesn't really matter at all. It's cathartic but ineffective. Make some vague statement about "the government" should solve this, while also cashing your outsize paycheck and continuing the privacy destroying work at BigCorp Data Scrapers Inc.

So I like the reminder to look in the mirror and remember who exactly is building all this surveillance tech in the first place, and starting the solutions there.