With most all of these privacy and anonymity stories, we're told of the types of data collected, then the type of group taking the data, then the reason the dat

With most all of these privacy and anonymity stories, we're told of the types of data collected, then the type of group taking the data, then the reason the data is collected. Finally, there's some promise of the strict guidelines on how it is planned to be used. The tech community needs to start calling bullshit on these kinds of stories. Once data is collected, it's collected. It, for all intents and purposes, exists forever. So it's impossible for the group taking the data to promise what the data might or might not be used for. And that's assuming that the group is the only one who ever owns the data. In a world of ultra-high speed internet, that's almost preposterous. It's not if, it's when the data gets out. Once it gets out, it's everywhere. While I understand that traditional property fits into a format like this, data does not. Trying to pretend that it does? In my opinion it's doing a great disservice to the readers.