Because there are sadists in every field.

If GoT had “ended” over privacy at the end of Season 7 it would still have a following. People would still wear their hair like the characters in the show… It would have created a pop culture sensation that lasted at least a generation. Now we have a funny reminder occasionally since so and so named their daughter Khaleesi in the middle of the “Breaker of Chains” season…

Signal protocol for all the things.

Only, then you can’t get paid for snitching… (You get to charge the government for all those requests… and you basically get to set the price.)