It seems like every time I open a Web brower today, I’m seeing something about a compromise of personal data. Whether its a poorly secured W-2 Tax Document site or poor Paris Hilton (again), it seems like everyone is losing personal data right and left.

Which leads me to revisit the questions. Where is my data? What’s being done with it? How much data about me is out there that no one is keeping an eye on? Things get archived in email–often by design. Things get onto backup tapes which then get lost. Things get stored on computers which get lost or stolen.

If I think about it too hard, it gets pretty hard to sleep at night. How about you?