Earlier quoted context omitted.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless. --Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof If you allow yourself to act as badly as others act, you don't have much of a moral compass. The world can only improve when we hold ourselves to a higher standard than we see, as it's too easy to rationalize our own behavior, and harshly judge others' actions.
As a sheep, you can take the moral high ground against a wolf, but you'll still get eaten. Companies generally don't care about holding themselves to higher standards of behaviour, unless it hurts their bottom line. Institutions don't understand shame, right, or wrong. The only thing they understand is power.
The defense against a wolf is (generally) not eating the wolf.
The defense against invasion of privacy is not more privacy invasion.