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> or where some distrust is warranted There have been enough data breaches that distrust is always warranted when a company has my data.

• jacquesm 8y ago
  It saddens me to confirm that your viewpoint is backed up by my day to day experience looking at companies from the other side. But, and this is important, not every company sucks at this, I'd say it's about 70/30 at the moment (substantially improved from 3 years ago) when it comes to doing things right. That 30% is of course way too low but it was so much worse that that's already quite a step. This too depends very much on the company activity.
  • delecti 8y ago
    Even the companies that don't suck at it are still putting me at risk just by possessing my information. In the risk analysis, it's not that the chances of something happening are necessarily high, it's that the potential damage is high.
    • jacquesm 8y ago
      That's spot on. You can really see the difference between one company and another by asking a single question: do they treat the data they possess as a liability or as an asset?