So infuriating.
Technology is, rightfully, seen as a tool of control.
It should be a tool for emancipation, gaining and increasing agency. It's been "sold" as such only to then gradually yet inexorably do the exact opposite.
This is deeply dangerous because it erodes trust in both governments and technology.
That being said, it's not new. It's been done before, it will be done again.
Consequently what could be done is to refuse any technology without safeguards, including the potential dismantle of the entire ecosystem in place the second it's being abuse. It should be impossible to have mandatory usage without matching "canary in the coal mine" that force the system to stop AND the person responsible for it to also be removed from their function.