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So, what exactly do you think would happen if a major company simply refuses/d to comply? Would they arrest the whole company? The CEO? Would it happen secretly? Would they just disappear? How can these "laws" possibly be enforced?

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Joe Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest, is in prison for insider trading, which he was charged with after refusing to hand over customer data without a warrant.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...

Did he participate in insider trading? Do you believe he was framed?

I'd surmise that everyone's a little dirty, but if you play nice, the powers that be will turn their head.

Put another way: racial profiling is real. That doesn't mean that those racially profiled are innocent when caught with illicit substances, but that doesn't make the profiling any less wrong.

It depends on the company, some would lose out on government contracts, I dare say a few anti-trust investigations would popup or some new laws that the company wouldn't like. They can make life very difficult for them.

That sounds like the mafia, not the gov't.

That is the problem.

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