On the contrary, it's exactly that sort of characterization that I object to. How could complying with court orders be the "worst possible privacy violation"?

On the contrary, it's exactly that sort of characterization that I object to. How could complying with court orders be the "worst possible privacy violation"? I'm sympathetic to the argument that the orders are overbroad, or that Microsoft should have appealed the orders and hasn't opposed the orders as stubbornly as it could have (though of course we know very little about what has actually occurred along these lines). But why would responding to a court order be a worse privacy violation than selling information about my online behavior to other companies (in addition to also responding to court orders!)?