In which I may have created a new term…

A reverse privacy breach is when people supply data that we don’t actually want to know about them, creating risk for us since we must now safeguard that information, whether we want it or now.

Recently, during the course of an internal review, we discovered that we were holding a lot of Personal Information that we had not previously been aware of. As a result, we had to try to track down where the information had come from so we could determine what policies it was covered under for use, retention and destruction.

This is yet another example of how Cory Doctorow was right when we wrote that accumulations of Personal Information are like “Nuclear Waste.”

Again, I bow to your brilliance.

Damn, that’s good.

I’m usually the one running away from the scene with hands over ears - “La, la, la - don’t tell me, I don’t want to know!”