Far from being a passive participant in our information being disseminated everywhere, they are actively undermining our privacy everywhere. They want our information, all of it, so they've made sure they can get it without warrants or judges or oversight, but so too can everyone else.
They've had their priorities all screwed up. That's what was so frustrating about the president railing against the "deep state," the bureaucracies are a problem and do need to be reigned in, he tapped into the anger on that, and trade, and will make those things worse not better. Only able to because the opposition party sold out to the rich and powerful.