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I don’t think it would. Congress could criminalize the behavior of corporate surveillance, then prosecutors could charge any individual or company that engages in that behavior. It’d only be a bill of attainder if it was selective by identity (e.g. a bill that proclaims “the CEO of Flock is guilty of criminal surveillance and should be arrested") rather than a defined criminal standard that applies to everyone.

I don’t think it would. Congress could criminalize the behavior of corporate surveillance, then prosecutors could charge any individual or company that engages in that behavior. It’d only be a bill of attainder if it was selective by identity (e.g. a bill that proclaims “the CEO of Flock is guilty of criminal surveillance and should be arrested") rather than a defined criminal behavior that applies to everyone.