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Define "need" In my job (infrastructure management) I am constantly fighting against people wanting to throw data away. "We know the condition of the bridge" t
by steve_gh 4y ago
Define "need"
In my job (infrastructure management) I am constantly fighting against people wanting to throw data away. "We know the condition of the bridge" they say - "so we don't need the past 20 years of maintenance records. It's too expensive to keep".
What they lose is the ability to understand how things change over the long term - how bridge supports and bearings degrade, so they can take proactive steps in the future and replace things in a planned way, rather than waiting for them to break.*
*Actually, what we do is a bit more complicated than this, but hopefully you get the point.
- clouddrover 4y agoHow is the condition of the bridge a privacy concern?
- segfaultbuserr 4y ago+1, I don't think this is relevant in this context. When we speak of treating data as toxic assets to minimize its collection and retention, it's about personal information with privacy concerns, not something like maintenance records.
- largepeepee 4y agoMaybe they don't want record because the data also holds incriminating evidence of how they understaffed the maintenance crew and skipped upkeep to fill their pockets in the short term.
- throwbadubadu 4y agoPlease, doesn't help to pull that (not personally related data) in here, this is just not comparable. Such data can be kept forever, maybe should even be public because of public interest, and likely even publicly owned. Personal data / PII, history and also current cases again and again show should be minimized. Germany had it pretty right with its https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenvermeidung_und_Datensparsamkeit https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datenvermeidung_und_Datenspa... though it gets attacked and holed out recently everyday again.. for the public interest they say, but for the profit interest of some corps they mean.. if not even for spying on citizens...