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While I get that sentiment its becoming clear to me that the corps are increasingly supplying data and inferencing models to governments.
Moving forward the business model for data collection is less about advertising and more about social 'guidance'. The extreme is Palantir supplying ICE with AI maps and they then knock on doors of immigrants.
But we can expect a lot more creative coercion moving forward. It will affect us all
Palantir supplying ICE leads to the direct harm of ICE busting down your door and shooting you ten times in the back out of self-defence. That's not just corps "gathering data" that's law enforcement committing abuse. In the same way, if we in the UK give the police facial recognition technology it could be used to commit abuse.
That's a far greater potential for harm than just "oh no, details of my face are on Google's servers".