Ways to control the flow of data rely on that data being there in the first place. I'm not sure what you mean by 'many technology pundits', so I don't know what

Ways to control the flow of data rely on that data being there in the first place. I'm not sure what you mean by 'many technology pundits', so I don't know what you're referencing — but my impression of the recent debate has to do with the importance of the infrastructure not the quality of the tools. Clearly we need better tools, but they can't exist without the data itself.