[oneplane]

Because the government can put you in jail and the marketing agency can't. (I think I heard this simplified response on the Risky Business podcast)

Realistically, scraping people for their data like this should just not be allowed at all. People are more important than corporations.

[seanp2k2]

But in America, “corporations are people, my friend!”

[eadler]

Corporate personhood predates the formation of the United States and is not unique to the states.

[jonhohle]

The phrase I’m familiar with is Monopoly on Violence.