It's a convenient difference, but I don't think it actually impacts anything.
It's an indirect way to address the level of resources you have at your disposal, which is itself only important for the scale at which you can capture the data.
In general, for the things people are OK with citizens doing but not OK with corporations doing, they mean an individual could not do it at a scale that bothers them. I'm specifically curious about what that scale is.
Certainly for me, there exists a hypothetical scale at which an individual gathering and recording detailed observations of other people becomes a little unsettling. Perhaps not criminal, but it falls into a "wish it didn't happen" bucket.
It's an indirect way to address the level of resources you have at your disposal, which is itself only important for the scale at which you can capture the data.
In general, for the things people are OK with citizens doing but not OK with corporations doing, they mean an individual could not do it at a scale that bothers them. I'm specifically curious about what that scale is.
Certainly for me, there exists a hypothetical scale at which an individual gathering and recording detailed observations of other people becomes a little unsettling. Perhaps not criminal, but it falls into a "wish it didn't happen" bucket.