Which is a good reason to avoid giving your data to either one in the first place. If I don't have a choice though, I'll take the company over the government any day.
(Edit: for my next trick, I will read the post more carefully before replying)
Another good example is the Dutch housing all the data in an building that was used to track down and kill the right people.
The data existing is the problem. The ideal situation is that there is no data.