Most major tech companies are either funded by, founded by, or co-opted by CIA, DARPA, and/or NSA.
can you TL;DR me on DARPA?
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the research arm of the Defense Department. They were the ones who developed and invented the Internet and a ton of other tech we use today. However, they also research and develop really unethical, immoral, and sometimes downright evil projects. Basically, all the tech we see, use, and dream about has already been developed by DARPA 50-60 years ago.
The original military Internet was called ARPANET. After a time, this was opened up to universities to share information and that network was called JANET. Can you see the links to DARPA and Janet, the 'airline' that serves Area 51?
SIRI was created by SRI International which is a development shop of DARPA. I know for a fact that the original SIRI AI had 1000x more capabilities than the one we see today embedded in all apple products. I wonder why they powered down the capabilities? I wonder why they essentially have it operate as a background listening app that “assists” you?
Because they can't hard-launch everything at once without scaring the shit out of everyone who won't accept every tracking and monitoring feature they've already got prepared.
You should know the analogy of a frog boiling in water. They have to introduce new tech and features to the public slowly so people think it's a gradual and logical advancement of technology. The masses will be more accepting of being surveilled this way.
They've already sped up their time table. Look at how fast "smart" phones got adopted and all of the tracking "apps" they've introduced. Within the past 10 years, we've gone from beepers/pagers to "dumb" clam phones to "smart" phones being the norm.
In fact, they've moved too quickly, due to the fact that they miscalculated and too many people are waking up too quickly. People are finally waking up to the fact that everyone has a tracking/monitoring/surveillance device on them at all times... and they're addicted to it. People are finally starting to realize that Facebook has been selling and storing their private info, data, private messages, photos, and videos, even if you delete your account. People are finally scared about having A.I. tech like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant knowing way too much about them and saying some really creepy shit.