Nobody should ever feel like this. Privacy is a right. I use VPN's exclusively purely because I don't want my ISP to mine me for information, then sell it to the highest bidder.
You sounds like you work at a great company. Every single level of my leadership at my company is fully brainwashed by it. They literally tell us how to do our jobs with AI, and yes, it's almost always wrong and creates headaches and long emails explaining why we can't or shouldn't listen to what "they" are telling us to do.
I bought 15 dollars of Moviepass long after it failed because I wondered if the marketing had value.
It did not.
There was zero value.