You're hyperventilating. Nobody has ever suggested that the RIAA or EA be able to wipe your phone. But plenty of companies have a policy that says that if you want to sync your phone with their corporate mail system, they need to be able to nuke your phone from orbit if something goes wrong.
When you find the example of the company that requires you to purchase a personal phone and sync it with their corporate mail server, you be sure and let us know. Until then, by all means, scream from the rooftops that this feature exists... but don't pretend there's no valid reason for it.
If my house has been broken into before, there's a "valid reason" for me to install a tripwire that automatically fires a shotgun blast at the intruder. That won't go over well in court, and neither should this.
hyperboling might be a better verb :) Looks like cross-cultural communication via a text only medium has meant you've completely missed both the tone and the content I was trying to present. Sorry about that
When you find the example of the company that requires you to purchase a personal phone and sync it with their corporate mail server, you be sure and let us know. Until then, by all means, scream from the rooftops that this feature exists... but don't pretend there's no valid reason for it.