Agreed with everything except "The consumer's fault." It's the data age now; information about you will make its way into the global repository without any dire

Agreed with everything except "The consumer's fault." It's the data age now; information about you will make its way into the global repository without any direct action on your part. - If you're a professional, someone is providing a way for your customers to audit interactions with you - If you're a driver, someone is tracking your car's movements - If you buy products, someone is tracking you bought them - If you ever communicate online, someone has logged that communication - If you're ever seen in public, someone can tag your face ... and after all this, if you piss an individual off enough, that individual can create a pastebin and drop as much of your personal info on there as they care to. We're already past the event horizon of private (easily-gleaned) information staying private; it's time to re-organize the solution space around the assumption that the information is public.