It is not a product of privilege or the police existing to protect specific companies. The secret service in this case were acting in the interest of public or

It is not a product of privilege or the police existing to protect specific companies. The secret service in this case were acting in the interest of public order, and if shopkeepers or franchisees couldn't have people installing Spyware on their machines prosecuted - it would make any kind of public hardware or software demo impossible. It's true that good public order does have effects that "empower" some people and disempower others, and sometimes this is Bad(TM). However good public order is also inherently necessary to have a society at all.