Stabbing a bit in the dark, but maybe TI wants to prevent a competitor from being to say "we didn't steal anything from you, we got all this info from sites that you were perfectly happy to let continue to operate freely".
The legal departments within companies have very, very different measures of success than that of just about anyone else. If you have weak company leadership, legal will start to drive policy more than it should.
> If you have weak company leadership, legal will start to drive policy more than it should.
That's a really interesting dynamic I have never experienced or heard of. Explains a lot! Do you know other examples?
(ed. clarify which part I wanted examples for)
Oracle is the example.