You are right. And as Rene Girard famously pointed out, human societies need scapegoats from time to time.

I wouldn't mind beheading and burning this particular scapegoat on the altar of privacy, though, if it helps us ponder a little more about our own self-contradictory nature. If scapegoating is inevitable, I would much rather live in a society that uses legal fictions such as corporations as its scapegoats than one that beheads and burns actual human beings.