> I don't think it would be too expensive to drop a particular record or table from a database if the incentive was there. Copying is so cheap these days that

> I don't think it would be too expensive to drop a particular record or table from a database if the incentive was there. Copying is so cheap these days that it often becomes intractable to erease it all. > But could you elaborate on what you mean by 'transparency by default'? I often observe that we think that some things should be private but that we do not spend the effort to keep them that way.