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An alternative is to think of data as dangerous chemicals.

You can acquire it and store it, but you have to follow some procedures : - do not expose your employees to it - do not leak it in the environment

It then falls to the company to make the cost/benefit analysis : is this chemical important enough to our process to justify these hasles.

The data export also does not need to be a perfect API, dump a huge json and let third party handle changes.