So the Census is enshrined in the Constitution, ostensibly because it would be impossible (pragmatically speaking) to facilitate a representative democracy without an accurate population count. I don’t think it’s productive to go off on a tangent about the legitimacy of the U.S. Constitution, unless you actually believe that corporations should be afforded the same role and mandate as the federal govt (in which case, hoo boy, I have no interest in following the rabbit hole of your thinking.

“It’s a symbiotic relationship”

Sorry, you’ll have to do a bit better than that. Many of us are old enough to have owned and driven vehicles quite well with no automated telemetry. The same can’t be said for account-based online social networks, which have always required user data to fundamentally function.