(I improved your title, and added tags)
Hi @zincfoam, welcome to our community 
This is quite shocking and indeed quite ‘inhumane’ technology.
What we can do as a community is start a ‘Naming & Shaming’ initiative, similar to GDPRHallOfShame.com (currently offline, but discussed on Hacker News here).
This could be combined with Idea - Humane Technology Logo Program for those companies and businesses that are on the positive end of the scale.