Why are you quoting intellectuals and establishment approved? Are you trying to imply something?
Yea. That the article is bunk 'cause it's bias as fuck.
What actual data do you have supporting your assertion?
lol.
The Edward Snowden debacle. You know how long people were talking about the massive surveillance state before it happened? You know how many people didn't fucking listen? A fucking lot. Know how I know? I was one of the people trying to sound the horn. Four fucking years before Snowden, I worked for PsyOps (DoD) in a very prestigious laboratory on a cognitive social simulation program which can do shit that would make your skin crawl. I couldn't say anything specific, just provide links to websites not blocked by security clearance. (In my defense, I didn't even know I would be working for the DoD (as the facility was DoE) or what the program was until I got there. I didn't perceive the perception filter around the study.) Anyway, had I said anything beyond my contract's stipulations, I'd surely disappear into a blacksite (or be hunted like Snowden). It was either release the information in controlled fashion or leave hints for people to find. Both, as we have seen, end in the power structure staying in place. Even with the massive controlled releases of Snowden and Wiki-leaks, people just shrug it off. Surveillance state is now the norm.
Do you see, then, how it is impossible to procure what you're asking for? You're literally asking for proof of something which cannot be proven. (And, honestly, for the record, it pisses me off because it's fucking arrogant.) Even if it is "proven", how you can you be sure what was released was not more propaganda? Is Snowden a form of controlled release? Who is a shill and who isn't in a surveillance state? Does wikileaks work with the russians or are they an arm of us intelligence performing controlled releases? Are they on their own fighting for freedom? Have they been compromised? Or, in other words...
You ask for data. How do you know that data you use hasn't been compromised? Not just by the government, but by, say, p-hacking. Do you personally know the researchers? If you do, did you catch that shift in their personality where they went from caring to not giving a fuck? Is that journal still reputable? Who is manning the board?
The end all for finding truth is self experimentation. Gnosis. Use your head. As I've shown above, simple logic and rationality can do wonders. No data provided. Just common sense. Don't expect to be spoon fed the answers. i.e. Go find your own fucking data.