This is not an informed statement whatsoever, it also ignores the ruling plutocratic power structure which is kind of obvious in the United States. The internet, mobile "Smart Devices" were not created and dispersed as a "naturalistic free market solution". Rather these necessary and instrumental, data analytical tools where developed by and for the reigning plutocracy to meter the problem of world governance on a macro scale. In the West alone there are only a handful of companies who collate the lions share of biometric, real time user data from smart phones and "smart devices". Of all of those companies, namely Google has an extremely incestuous history with US intelligence agencies. This also ignores the fact the internet itself owes its existence to DARPA.

Google: seeded by the Pentagon

In 1994?—?the same year the Highlands Forum was founded under the stewardship of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the ONA, and DARPA?—?two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service. Brin and Page had performed their work with funding from the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency programme of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and DARPA.

But that’s just one side of the story.

Throughout the development of the search engine, Sergey Brin reported regularly and directly to two people who were not Stanford faculty at all: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham and Dr. Rick Steinheiser. Both were representatives of a sensitive US intelligence community research programme on information security and data-mining.

Thuraisingham is currently the Louis A. Beecherl distinguished professor and executive director of the Cyber Security Research Institute at the University of Texas, Dallas, and a sought-after expert on data-mining, data management and information security issues. But in the 1990s, she worked for the MITRE Corp., a leading US defense contractor, where she managed the Massive Digital Data Systems initiative, a project sponsored by the NSA, CIA, and the Director of Central Intelligence, to foster innovative research in information technology.

“We funded Stanford University through the computer scientist Jeffrey Ullman, who had several promising graduate students working on many exciting areas,” Prof. Thuraisingham told me. “One of them was Sergey Brin, the founder of Google. The intelligence community’s MDDS program essentially provided Brin seed-funding, which was supplemented by many other sources, including the private sector.”

This sort of funding is certainly not unusual, and Sergey Brin’s being able to receive it by being a graduate student at Stanford appears to have been incidental. The Pentagon was all over computer science research at this time. But it illustrates how deeply entrenched the culture of Silicon Valley is in the values of the US intelligence community.

Source: How the CIA made Google - Medium

In terms of US intelligence agencies themselves, they're not accountable to the US congress and thus the American people. Some institutions such as the CIA created numerous corporations of their own to facilitate their operations without congressional oversight. This is made overtly obvious in the Church Committee Report of 1975 which highlighted CIA operations during the war in Vietnam. Other projects of note such as MKULTRA were also completely without any congressional oversight, however their operations were managed by a key select few within the real power structure of American plutocracy, specific to the CIA reference Allan Dulles. A ruling power that is not divided by the pseudo "left vs right" carnival for the ignorant masses.

John Foster Dulles was brought to the post of Secretary of State from a president's position in Rockefeller's banking and nickel-mining activities in the U.S. and abroad. Allen Dulles was a director of the Rockefeller-Schroeder Bank. He was on the board of directors for 15 years

Source: THE ROCKEFELLER DIRECTORS -- THE DULLES BROTHERS

(www.waronwethepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Princeton-Univ.-Document-Dulles-Rockefeller-CIA-Connection-Evidence.pdf)

In terms of modern data analytics, CEO of MasterCard called data the new "black gold". Unsurprisingly data analytics is fast becoming the foundation of any user platform on the internet. Its created a spectacular shit show in the realm of escapism, that being gaming for users. Companies are employing numerous Skinner base concepts such as gambling to addict and prolong user engagement in their platforms. Western governments are also trying to employ "gamification". A system originally built for the Chinese government by Western corporations, who have a long history of developing surveillance systems for the Communist regime.

Content requested from a home computer for topics deemed undesirable will be stored against that person's personal file in numerous databases. The network rolled out with product and knowledge support from western IT firms is designed to think – that is, to identify individual subscribers when they log on, matching names to IP addresses, and learning, over time, what interests them.

The Golden Shield Project also integrates a facial recognition system (FRS), partly developed by Acsys Biometrics, a Canadian company. Rolled out across closed-circuit video surveillance networks in Chinese cities, it allows the Golden Shield to see. Rick Collins, senior manager of Nortel's advanced research laboratory, ProtoNet, said of the Acsys system: "Layering Acsys' face recognition's capabilities within Nortel Networks' solutions will make communication networks more personal. I envision a network that knows who you are, where you are and can reach you whether you're on your mobile phone or at your desktop."

An enthusiastic business partner of the Chinese state apparatus has been Cisco. Notorious for its several appearances before the US House of Representatives to explain their role in supplying virtually the entire hardware on which the Golden Shield Project operates, as well as multiple systems to assist Chinese ministries responsible for catching political and social dissidents and censoring the internet. In 1997, Cisco won the contract to supply internet "firewall boxes" and, by 2006, they supplied 60% of the Chinese market for routers, switches and other sophisticated networking gear. Its estimated annual revenue from China is $500m.

In 2003, Cisco's "Policenet" software was rolled out as the backbone of the Chinese state security system. This software, in conjunction with Intel's fingerprint technology, is compatible with the Chinese surveillance systems and allows a policeman stopping a person on the street to scan that person's ID card and access instantly the individual's past political and social behaviour, family history and recent internet activity.

Terry Alberstein, director of corporate affairs for Cisco Systems (Asia Pacific), confirmed in 2005 that Cisco does indeed sell networking and telecommunications equipment directly to the Public Security Bureau and other law enforcement offices throughout China. Cisco recently stated that it also provides service and training to Chinese police officials. Unlike other IT companies, Cisco has signed contracts directly with Chinese public security authorities.

Source: Corporate complicity with the Great Firewall - The Guardian

Did you even watch the video? Social media creators haven't never denied their agenda is literally to get you addicted and they even explain how they do it and you honest believe there isn't some bigger beast pulling those strings behind the scenes, not even bothering to hide? Wake up.