It's easy to say that "it probably won't happen" today. But so much can happen to change the game in the future. Budget cuts to security, internal employees being "in" on the hack, etc.
And what happens when it actually gets hacked? Nothing. Nobody will come out and say "our bad we shouldn't have collected and stored all this sensitive data". Heck, you would be lucky if it's not used as evidence for why further pushes for massive surveillance is needed.
Then there is also the issue that even though the data might be stored with good intentions today, we don't know who is going to be in charge tomorrow, or after that. Whatever Obama promises only lasts until somebody else becomes president, who thinks that all this data that is already stored and ready, should be used in new interesting ways. The data doesn't even need to leak and be hacked for it to be misused, when the owners of the data are in constant flux.
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It's easy to say that "it probably won't happen" today. But so much can happen to change the game in the future. Budget cuts to security, internal employees being "in" on the hack, etc.
And what happens when it actually gets hacked? Nothing. Nobody will come out and say "our bad we shouldn't have collected and stored all this sensitive data". Heck, you would be lucky if it's not used as evidence for why further pushes for massive surveillance is needed.
Then there is also the issue that even though the data might be stored with good intentions today, we don't know who is going to be in charge tomorrow, or after that. Whatever Obama promises only lasts until somebody else becomes president, who thinks that all this data that is already stored and ready, should be used in new interesting ways. The data doesn't even need to leak and be hacked for it to be misused, when the owners of the data are in constant flux.