But how is it relevant to corporate policies if the people are nice? Google is a corporation that's making money by selling ads and those ads are targeted based on user's data.
No matter how good the Google employes, the incentives are perverse and will twist Google's decision in favor of eroding customer privacy even more. See Schmidt's "privacy is dead" quote. Privacy is not dead yet, but the likes of Facebook and Google are trying really hard to kill it because there's more money for them if they do.
People are posting intimate details of their lives on the net. Sending naked pics around their phones. They killed privacy off themselves because it gives them freedom in other ways.
As B.Schneier said, if people post private details, it doesn't mean they don't care about their privacy at all.
Even for those people, it's important that they have some control over what they post. For instance they expect their phone pic to be private to them and the person they sent it to, or they expect their Facebook info to be available only to friends and they expect that they can be able to delete it or change it.
Even if your premise were correct, we have to ask ourselves if it is desirable for society that privacy is dead and I can't see how the answer would ever be yes.
