[freehunter]

Something tells me you didn't read all of my post. If the CEO is doing something that the shareholders don't like, the...

>shareholders (could) force the benevolent board of directors out of the company and they would go where the profits were anyway

[k-mcgrady]

I did read it. My point was more about the CEO's personal Ethics. Does he value his job so much that he won't risk it at the expense of the countries getting away with huge privacy violations? If he publicly shamed these countries, was fired and the company continued to follow these laws maybe they would lose customers and it would negatively hurt their image and actually be worse for profits.