It's both. Google gets (ab)used by the US government at least; here is a high-profile case, where they fought the secrecy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096888. Governments are asking for warrantless wiretapping, and the centralisation of data by large corporations where the user doesn't control it is too tempting a target (see the AT&T/NSA retroactive immunity scandal for another example).