Google is a for profit company don't expect them to act like an non profit organization
One missing bit that still hasn't happened - but one day will - is the subscription required to use your device. For now it's optional (called iCloud storage etc.) - you are nagged and so on but are able to refuse, but one day it will become obligatory. It could be 10 years from on or 20, but for sure they're thinking how to do it.
If a company violates this a progressive and percentage based fine should be imposed for every day of non-compliance. Something like .01% of the company's net worth per day, increasing to 2% over the course of 30 days, half of which goes to federal enforcement and half to the user. Something painful and crippling, with teeth, and enough to incentivize people to watch out for themselves and to force companies to behave well.
Data beaches should be lethal if data was leaked that wasn't obtained with consent.
Faang is not entitled to surveil the lives of everyone in the world by dint of people merely visiting websites.
Participation in a relationship with a person or business or community should be consensual.
I can and I will.
The only remedy prescribed by capitalism to evil companies is that consumers hold them to the consumers ideals of how ethical a company must act.
This can NEVER happen, if every time this comes up, somebody is making excuses for them.
"Google is a for profit company of course they are gonna try to make money"
Irrelevant. Stop making excuses.
That, or stupid. And I don't think a stupid company would get to where Google is today.
It would take a company filled with perfect people to avoid having anyone even think about doing the wrong thing. Part of being human is considering the wrong thing and then doing the right thing. (Or not, sometimes.)
One would have expected a big company like Google not to take illegal choices into consideration, no matter its profit-related motives.