I'm so glad you brought that up, because this is part of the relentless ideology of the surveillance capitalists. They have tried to put lawmakers on the run. They have tried to pit lawmakers against citizens. That “we serve the citizens” is exactly what is going on in Toronto right now: “Do you really want the government to take away these beautiful wooden buildings and these warm sidewalks that we're going to build for you?”
This is ideology. The fact is that they claim the right to freedom in the same way that Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek argued that we need free markets and free market actors, because the marketplace is this ineffable mystery that no one can manage—ergo, freedom is necessary.
The surveillance capitalists claimed that freedom, but the market is no longer ineffable for them. They have total information. They know everything that's going in and out of their marketplaces. Surveillance capitalism knows too much to qualify for freedom. This is a rotten ideology at its core, and we must not be intimidated by it.