If a (Republican?) president directs his EPA administrator to back off, Environmental Defense, the Sierra Club and everyone else in the multibillion dollar global warming lobby will be in court in a second, arguing that the Supremes were quite clear: endangerment means regulation.
The point is to be able to take all of that stuff off the desk of some administrator in the purchasing company and have it done for all more efficiently by the supplier.
Now the upgraded version of GoogleSharing pulls off another privacy trick for the doubly paranoid: preventing Marlinspike or any other GoogleSharing administrator from seeing user data, too.