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

[janetl]

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

[cjsmith]

Absolutely. If nothing else, lots of my information that I'd consider sensitive today becomes much less sensitive after my death. Information that I was planning to quit my job in August of 2008 is suddenly not sensitive at all in September of 2008.