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by mindslight 4469 days ago
> with a private company there is a profit motive, and they could lose customers over bad press

Which means that companies are only going to want to hide, downplay, and pretend to prevent such spying. This sounds familiar..

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Furthermore, a private company can just bill the government.

> In December 2012, for instance, Microsoft emailed DITU a PDF invoice for $145,100, broken down to $100 per request for information, the documents appear to show. In August 2013, Microsoft allegedly emailed a similar invoice, this time for $352,200, at a rate of $200 per request. The latest invoice provided, from November 2013, is for $281,000.

from http://www.dailydot.com/news/microsoft-compliance-emails-fbi...