[brudgers]

The photons look about the same to me. At the other end of the data hose, someone is using information about me for their benefit. Governments are one form of enterprise by which individuals may strive to accumulate and express power, corporations are another.

I am ambivalent in regards to ranking one over the other because I cannot file a FOI request with Microsoft or Google or Apple or HP or Yahoo, etc.

Microsoft just makes great headlines, particularly in the tech community where people such as myself, who very likely never planned on purchasing an Xbox One can express outrage over its design. I thought the architecture was crap from the beginning.

[Peaker]

The threat is to democracy. If corporations violate your privacy, democracy is not in serious danger.

If the government does, democracy is.