When you are spying on a foreign bank or corporation, aren't you spying on a bunch of foreign people?
I mean, arguably, if the NSA were spying on Google, would that make it reasonably all right? It's not like Google has feelings or a right to privacy -- it's not a person, it's a corporation.
Unless they're spying on bulldozers or kitchen ustensils, "entity" could be easily replaced with "one or more people" and the phrase would retain the same meaning. It's one of the many procedures in the family of othering: we're not shooting at people, we're shooting at the 4th platoon.
I mean, arguably, if the NSA were spying on Google, would that make it reasonably all right? It's not like Google has feelings or a right to privacy -- it's not a person, it's a corporation.
Unless they're spying on bulldozers or kitchen ustensils, "entity" could be easily replaced with "one or more people" and the phrase would retain the same meaning. It's one of the many procedures in the family of othering: we're not shooting at people, we're shooting at the 4th platoon.