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by aragot 4511 days ago
It's forbidden to walk on the street with 10 grands. It should be forbidden to put more than X records of data in a database without a third-party certification for every order of magnitude your database size is.

And that power has to raise aside from the governments agencies. I know it might affect startups too, but the people who have gathered data until now haven't stuck to enough ethics. The danger that data collection represents is proportional to the square of the size of the db, or of the compatible systems the data can be bound to.

Right, it's gonna be the theme of the decade.