Yes, but note from the page: those unauthorized accesses were reported and the employees were sanctioned including demotion, etc. On the private side, it can b

Yes, but note from the page: those unauthorized accesses were reported and the employees were sanctioned including demotion, etc. On the private side, it can be worse, because the governance structure is not always there. https://bgr.com/2016/12/13/uber-privacy-and-security/ https://bgr.com/2016/12/13/uber-privacy-and-security/ Uber employees helped ex-boyfriends stalk ex-girlfriends, and were even able to access trip information for celebrities like Beyoncé, Reveal News explains. These revelations come from the company’s former in-house forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg. Agreed from comment above this one - it's a problem both for govts and for private industry. I think what democratic societies need is an agreed framework for how as a society we regulate such data collection (as Schneier argues in the link I posted above, or as Doctorow has recently argued.)