It's yet another indication that what they're doing is fundamentally a terrible idea and should be outlawed. Another is that private companies holding massive

It's yet another indication that what they're doing is fundamentally a terrible idea and should be outlawed. Another is that private companies holding massive databases of info about everyone is barely better than the government doing the same, if you're more worried about government abuse than private abuse of data. Many companies can and do sell access to governments, and of course warrants & other orders exist. (yes, this also applies to the "credit bureaus", banks, and all sorts of other companies that hoard and sell all kinds of creepy stalker data about people)