Comment by AnthonyMouse

> It's significantly easier to make money when you are at worst doing grey area stuff and stay mostly legal (or even "better" is to lobby your thing into being legal).

Look at the stuff Apple does, openly and in front of everybody, in response to laws they don't like, e.g. EU DMA. Now what is a scummy surveillance corporation going to do in the face of a law which there is no easy way to tell if they're violating?

> And any info known by more than 2 people is no longer a secret, and you ain't paying enough to your employees to lie under oath for their employer.

Consider how a large company works. Suppose as many as 95% of the employees are honest and/or risk-averse. Those 95% don't do it. When the remaining 5% do it without even being asked to because it's the thing that makes number go up and number going up is what gets them a bonus, they aren't going to tell on themselves and the other 95% don't even know that it's happening. Really the other >99% because 5% of people being willing to do it doesn't require 5% of people to be in on it.

> even if it does happen it's mostly out of ignorance, not a deliberate attempt to go against the law.

Getting screwed by ignorance rather than malice is still getting screwed.