descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism

This isn't new.

One of the defining traits of fascism is that the private sector is in cahoots with the government. In fact, that's the root of the words fascism: fasces in Latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private interests.

Corporations have no principles and no morals: whatever will make them more money, they'll ro-ro with. When it takes colluding with an authoritatian regime, they have no problems getting onboard.

The danger today compared to IBM helping the Nazis is of course that today's computers are vastly more powerful than mechanical tabulators. This is going to turbocharge the dystopia orders of magnitudes.

And finally, people have been lulled into a false sense of security and convinced to give away a lot more personal information than they should've for the past 25 years - the "I have nothing to hide, why do I need privacy?" fallacy. Now they're going to find out why they should have been careful. I almost want to say "I told you so" every day, having been called a paranoid crackpot for the past 25 years, but it's so sad and so too late that it isn't even anything to gloat about...