[SamReidHughes]

Which is information you might want to keep and share. So that you can talk about people.

Example: if I want to say Brian accessed my website last Thursday.

[Dylan16807]

You can do journalism about Brian specifically, but you can't preemptively store information about everybody just in case.

[SamReidHughes]

Then you can't keep information around necessary to defend yourself against defamation.