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...

[janetl]

The point about how the sensitivity of information changes over time is so true.

[hitchhiker]

i've also seen articles about how the new have-nots could be people who lack privacy, because more and more things can use your data as leverage.