One particularly egregious case involved information about 1.7 million patients, staff members, contractors and suppliers of Bronx hospitals and clinics operated by the Health and Hospitals Corporation, the New York public health agency.
A Minnesota judge agreed, saying that Philip Morris had engaged in an "egregious attempt to hide information" and, in a major blow to the industry, eventually forced the release of some 30 million pages of documents from industry files.
Unfortunately, these hard issues do not rise to the level of national debate until some egregious mishandling of private information finally occurs.
She says: "From the beginning, when Google Earth was launched, he was finding things in the imagery and creating overlays of information that were highlighting egregious environmental practices".
I don't like personal information being used in egregious ways".
For the wife to publicly shame him by sharing this information is just as egregious an offense.
Watson, who is known for campaigning on civil liberties, said: "The Tories' decision to review the Freedom of Information Act is a particularly egregious example of their determination to reverse the transparency Labour introduced".
And while Barasch's legal representation of Stanford might have been the single most consequential and egregious example of such misconduct, the new information shows that Barasch's actions in representing Stanford were hardly an anomaly.
Indeed, the Snowden revelations illustrate that it is not only the U.S., but these same governments that are now critical of the U.S. that engage in similar egregious acts and indeed benefit from the information accessed by the U.S. government.
Egregious leaps and claims, humongous missing pieces of information, language powerfully suggestive of bias.
