I think it's more of a case of lay-people realising the irony in using say, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Whatsapp, BBM products and then complaining that

I think it's more of a case of lay-people realising the irony in using say, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Whatsapp, BBM products and then complaining that someone somewhere is tracking them. Or is the assumption in here that corporations are more trustworthy than government?