Beware the Privacy Violations in Artificial Intelligence Applications

It has been proposed that, "Privacy matters to the electorate, and smart business looks at how to use data to find out information while remaining in compliance with regulatory rules." Since "smart business" also consists of "the electorate" as employees, at least one burning question is whether privacy or ethical violations in technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) will really matter sufficiently to employees who may be more concerned about putting food on the table than about raising concerns or performing whistleblowing, with potentially negative job consequences for them? And what happens if the country, region, or sector is too immature to have meaningful regulatory rules to comply with? Does it then become a case of almost anything goes? After all, no laws will be broken by the "smart business" in this case.