Look at the stuff Apple does, openly and in front of everybody, in response to laws they don't like, e.g. EU DMA. Now what is a scummy surveillance corporation going to do in the face of a law which there is no easy way to tell if they're violating?
> And any info known by more than 2 people is no longer a secret, and you ain't paying enough to your employees to lie under oath for their employer.
Consider how a large company works. Suppose as many as 95% of the employees are honest and/or risk-averse. Those 95% don't do it. When the remaining 5% do it without even being asked to because it's the thing that makes number go up and number going up is what gets them a bonus, they aren't going to tell on themselves and the other 95% don't even know that it's happening. Really the other >99% because 5% of people being willing to do it doesn't require 5% of people to be in on it.
> even if it does happen it's mostly out of ignorance, not a deliberate attempt to go against the law.
Getting screwed by ignorance rather than malice is still getting screwed.