In another discussion on philosophy someone mentioned a principle they didn't have a name for, but applies here as well. Their example was that you can ethically look at a license plate and memorize it, but if you get a network of people at strategic positions of a town to meticulously write down all license plates 24/7 and collect this in a central place, that becomes an unethical/illegal privacy violation.

Enough quantitative change becomes qualitative. Ice is just a bunch of water molecules just a bit differently organized. Graphite is worthless, even though it's the same atoms as diamond, but differently organized.

Many people joining together into a corporation can become its own thing, acting as if it had "goals" on its own that may be not in line with the goals of the individual participants. Corporations are real entities separate from individuals. It's emergence. It's a "socially constructed" entity but no less real.

Yuval Harari describes this very convincingly in Sapiens.