Private companies have incentive to pursue whatever the fuck they want to pursue. Public companies have a nominal responsibility to shareholders, but as long as they can justify it they can do whatever so long as it makes money eventually. Governments have a nominal responsibility to their citizens, but can do other stuff if they are allowed to do so.
WMD is such a stupid thing to bandy about, anyways--how many more are killed with cigarettes and cars than have died from these superweapons that rot in silos and labs?
PRISM, as somebody else has pointed out, is a stupid example because massive data mining is literally the business model for vast swathes of industry.
WMD is such a stupid thing to bandy about, anyways--how many more are killed with cigarettes and cars than have died from these superweapons that rot in silos and labs?
PRISM, as somebody else has pointed out, is a stupid example because massive data mining is literally the business model for vast swathes of industry.
Just stop.