Nice rhetoric yourself. I am sure big mega corp has nice checks in place to try and prevent these things, but no system is perfect, nor exhaustive. That's the problem when you are a data sink as a business, your #1 incentive is to keep the data flowing in.
You would think that when you hand someone your telephone number and they promise to secure it or only use it for a specific purpose, the onus is on them to prove they didn't misuse it.
