Surely government institutions would never break their own rules, or lie to anyone?
To be clear, I'm not saying anything is true or not. I'm just saying we shouldn't rule anything out. It's possible that some of the tech companies are themselves partially or fully in the dark.
Government institutions frequently break their own rules, lie, and violate the law.
I suppose anything's possible, in some abstract sense, but we're talking about reality here, which excludes some more creative theories. And, alas for screenwriters, there is precisely zero evidence to support your "in the dark" theory. :)
To be clear, I'm not saying anything is true or not. I'm just saying we shouldn't rule anything out. It's possible that some of the tech companies are themselves partially or fully in the dark.