Sensitive data

[cjsmith]

"Over time, the probability that any entity holding a large store of sensitive private data will remain both competent enough to protect it adequately and honest enough to want to goes to zero." -Matt Blaze (Twitter)

Some comments are clearly just wanking, but some raise (imo) good points.

Comments

[cjsmith]

Thank you! Definitely took a little while to see what the writer was intending to say, but now I get the gist. It seems like there are two key points: 1) overwhelmingly and increasingly, people are willing to give up privacy for free stuff; and 2) enough data about an individual, linked to that individual, can be detrimental (in a couple of ways: it opens the person to strong influences that may not be in their best interest, and conclusions drawn from it may be used to deny them opportunities).