It has been truly frustrating when people will blame the "tech industry" for what is essentially reckless behavior from other industries. For a while, it was often the finance sector that did most of the crazy stuff. With crypto being an obnoxious overlap of the two.
It has been truly frustrating when arms dealers are punished for what is essentially reckless behavior from warlords, dictators, and drug cartels.
Data brokers are the OG tech industry. They've been around since the late 60s selling consumer data. Just because it's unsexy data storage and query work doesn't make it less tech.
I mean, somewhat fair. But when people decry "big tech," they aren't talking about these companies.