It's interesting how you think of US tech currently being in a process of becoming a tool of state surveillance and oppression that Russia and China have, while the following exists:
- Helped Cambridge Analytica (~2013) to interfere with the elections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
- Bought Onavo (~2013) to spy on competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
- Manufactured consent to enable genocides in Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Gaza.
3 entries in the list above did exactly that more than a decade ago.
My point is that the US tech is not in a process, they were at the frontier long before everyone else.
* PRISM (est. 2007) spied on US citizens with the help from AT&T, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
* SpyFiles (various years, ~2011) US/EU surveillance software: https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/
* Facebook (est. 2004):
* Palantir (est. 2003): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir* Microsoft GSP (~2003) to enable US government to find zero-days (now with Mythos): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/gsp