> What does it mean to waste data, something notoriously free to copy? She didn't say waste data. It's a waste of many resources though, including energy and b

> What does it mean to waste data, something notoriously free to copy? She didn't say waste data. It's a waste of many resources though, including energy and bandwidth, even processing power. Depends on what level of abstraction you want to look at it from, but it's definitely a waste of something. It is possible to waste data though, but only by deleting it. It takes energy to collect and store data. This isn't relevant to the case though.