He fleshes out the toxic waste metaphor most fully in this talk, which he gave, rather boldly, at a big data (Hadoop) event. It's text and images but there's a

He fleshes out the toxic waste metaphor most fully in this talk, which he gave, rather boldly, at a big data (Hadoop) event. It's text and images but there's a video link at the top to the actual talk if you prefer it that way: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm That's quite a good talk. The takeaway is to treat data, especially personal data, as a liability rather than an asset, to discard data by default, and to retain only with a very specific goal in mind, and even then to transform the retained data into some kind of useful aggregate and discard it. It doesn't contain the YouTube metaphor, which is included in this http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm