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

[metahacker]

See also a number of articles ten ish years ago on personal data as toxic waste: dangerous to store, prone to leakage, hard to get rid of...

[cjsmith]

Yes. Along those lines, one of the comments to the tweet above says “the probability that any entity who has decided to hold a large store of sensitive private data was ever honest enough to want to protect it tends to zero.” and I think there’s a lot to be said for that.