This touches on something that HN readers should be quite familiar with. The immediate issue here in every case is not legality, ethics, morality, etc., it is privacy.
As we can see demonstrated by this story, some folks do have things they want to hide. Tech employees supporting efforts to violate people's privacy at mass scale, collecting data about people to feed advertising-dependent business plans, and creating conditions for data breaches that leak personal information, please take note.
It is always about balancing public, the interest of many, over private, the interest of one. When transaction size goes to millions and publicly funded politicians get involved, the public interest becomes more dominant. Especially if you have crooked deals like a friend of Putin buying a movie theater price under the market value, funded by a government loan.
As we can see demonstrated by this story, some folks do have things they want to hide. Tech employees supporting efforts to violate people's privacy at mass scale, collecting data about people to feed advertising-dependent business plans, and creating conditions for data breaches that leak personal information, please take note.