2010 could go on record as the year the privacy mess hit the proverbial fan. Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Google all got nailed for sharing users’ personal data in big ways. Police officers caught tracking people’s movements via cell phones, Web advertisers tracked surfers’ virtual movements via hard-to-kill cookies. Google’s Street View vans were accidentally slurping up unencrypted data–including user passwords and e-mail messages. Google gathered 600GB of extra data in more than 30 countries, resulting in international sanctions, civil lawsuits.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126469/privacy-alert–10-biggest-threats-of-2010.html