[mathgladiator]

I've had a position for a while that we need to rethink our databases such that privacy is a first class citizen to minimize the potential space to "hook into" sensitive information.

Databases have access control mechanisms that scale to an organization, but web scale demands access control for the world which means that every developer working with a DB must invent their own access control to the data on behalf of their users. This basically means the database is open to all developers in a company.

Given the emerging regulatory environment, I suspect there is room to launch new database technology such that access control is an atomic feature built in.

I've experimented with this using my programming language for board games, and it is surprisingly amazing. I can model data schema and privacy at the same time, and I love it. http://www.adama-lang.org/