I think a lot of people are sort of culpable in where we are. As a citizen, I have perhaps legitimized the last 10 years of how the government has been acting by not being more vocal. As a technologist, I saw hints of some of this, but in that time I also wanted to believe that action was starting to occur within government to take some more control of the situation.
That didn't happen. To me, this is also where that shift.... There's a responsibility on behalf of government to protect the people who live in this country. We talk about the trust in government being low sometimes. What's happening now is completely destabilizing the legitimacy of the government. To be acting as though this isn't a big deal—we're just going to do little tweaks here or there—when we don't have fundamental, big changes under way, as well as big questions around the asymmetrical power that impacts the people who live here, a lot, is very problematic.
At this point in time, this falls to government. I don't want people to have to become hyper data literate in their time off right now. This is why we have laws and policies, to make sure that people don't have to be overly engaged in this. That's where we are now. People are having to get super engaged in this because they realize how vulnerable they are. They're not protected at this point in time. This is problematic to me, and this really falls on government.
If you're a company and you're allowed, of course you're going to do it.