[ethbro]

I hear you that it makes things more difficult, but I think it's hard to overstate how terrible & uninterested conservative revenue stream businesses (e.g. insurance, utilities) are at keeping up with IT trends.

Based on what I saw in a couple of the top 5 largest insurance companies, these are IT departments that would be storing personal data in databases open to every employee of the organization, were there not a law discouraging them doing so.

Why?

Because IT isn't their business. That perspective is changing (gradually), but the resistance to anything aside from business as usual is staggering.

[BurningFrog]

Sure, but the other side of the equation is an unknowable number of thousands of lost lives and billions of dollars, because of medical advances that were never made.

There are other important values than privacy in the world!