Isn't this more like the venue owner bugged the room and then shared your private truths? It's not your "friends" sharing your info with corporations, it's the

Isn't this more like the venue owner bugged the room and then shared your private truths? It's not your "friends" sharing your info with corporations, it's the venue. Big difference. (Granted, buried somewhere in your contract for renting the "venue" you've probably agreed to such a thing but that doesn't make this analogy a good one)