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by Silhouette 3682 days ago
The trouble with that idea is that some people are increasingly (and IMHO justifiably) skeptical about sensitive records being made or kept in the first place. Merely having some system for managing such records in accordance with whatever rules apply this week is not sufficient to retain the confidence of those people.

There will be mistakes. There will be leaks. There will be abuses. The possibility or likelihood of these things happening will surely have a chilling effect, even if serious problems are rare in practice.