In part I think the difference is the user/customer-base. For Google or Facebook their CEO's actually have to pay lip-service to user-data-privacy and pretend to be outraged at government surveillance because it would hurt them economically not to do so.

For Oracle's customer-base those concerns just might not mean as much, so Ellison gets to float around ideas like National ID Cards (https://web.archive.org/web/20141224053509/http://archive.wi...) their big corporate subscribers probably wouldn't have minded.