It's not life is even a secret. It's never been hidden. Governments have openly declared that they want people on secondment from all manner of large firms. They influence policy, make government contacts for ongoing lobbying, and hold open doors for people leaving Westminster to join their side...

The Luddites were never against technology.
Right at the start is industrial capitalism they correctly saw that technology was being used by the powerful to de-skill and impoverish the working class.
It's capitalists who made the term a pejorative after violently suppressing the movement.