You‘re definitely right. There‘s a lack of cooperation going on in the current systems. But a two-way cooperation between a/the government and major data-hoarding companies seems to be just halfway of what we should aim for. If you truly want to use aggregated data for good, you should open data for everyone. Connecting power (government) and money (private-sector) without including a social or democratic element might just lead to a dystopian future in which competition is everything but encouraged. You gotta consider that ‘data‘ is not just numbers anymore. ‘Data‘ means identities. So handing out access to ‘data‘ but also to the means of producing or collecting it (software) is the most democratic way of bringing technology to the next level.