US companies protest against surveillance

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Smart man.

Those companies compile data on their users and use said data to market products at them.How they can complain about snooping when they themselves snoop is hypocrisy at its height.

This is like a mob boss saying that he wants to stomp out organized crime.

Not really.
People using the services of these companies agree to the terms set out in documents which most people simply click to say "yes" without reading them.
Governments and their agencies however agree to a different set of terms which says arbitrary surveillance is a violation of the right to privacy which is a human right.