privacy

They are the same due to the company providing the information to the governments to take action.

Tech company surveillance and data collection is government surveillance and data collection.

Tech companies doing surveillance? Their goal is to make money.

Government doing surveillance? Their goal is to arrest/lock people up and stay in power.

Tech companies cannot get data from the government. Government CAN demand data from the tech company.

Mussolini called fascism the marriage of corporations and government, so what's the fucking difference?

It’s not like you can opt out of one or the other. Objectively it’s be better if broad scale data collection by private companies was illegal since then you’d have some confidence that only the govt was spying on you, and their budget for it would be smaller than Facebook and palantir’s.

In principle yes, because the government has the authority to legally punish people (with fines, imprisonment, even death), private companies do not...

But your specific example with Palantir is a bit weird because Palantir, as I understand it, is mainly in the business of data analysis for governments, so that is an example of government spying, not corporate spying...

It's the same.

Tech company surveillance because they'll sell the information to anybody who asks and pays for it, including government. This is how government circumvents right to privacy and illegal search and seizure. They don't need a warrant if they have something the tech companies want.

They’re all in bed with one another so all the same.

It depends on how much you trust or distrust that government or corporation. You might trust or distrust one government more than another or one corporation more than another. I can easily think of some governments and corporations I would trust more or less than other ones. Of course one shouldn't completely trust or distrust any government or corporation. Choose which ones to trust carefully, hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.