[zimpenfish]

> An invasion of privacy is an invasion of privacy regardless of the one doing the invading.

Technically, yes, but one party (e.g. USGOV) has many more strands that it can weave together into a larger coherent picture than the other (e.g. Meta).

Also one party has guns and an almost blanket immunity to using them on people it deems it does not like via its privacy violations.

That probably tips the scales for some people.

[dylan604]

Up until the socials get their own security forces that are deployed as the algo tells them. They have enough money to be the next Pinkertons. /s

But at this point, the government is getting the data from private companies. So if the private companies were not gathering the data, the government would not have such easy access. So I'm much more concerned about private companies for that reason. Yes, the government can do more things to you physically, but they are too dependent on what private companies provide