background here: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/?guccounter=2

background here: https://www.secretsofprivacy.com/p/crypto-is-about-to-get-even-less-private

background here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90996547/e-books-are-fast-becoming-tools-of-corporate-surveillance

here's an article where 23andme confirmed certain data was stolen: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/

Great question. Someone must think that data is useful somehow.