One user's private information could get sent to another user, or you could have a subslice that gets "validated" and then overwritten. Edit: Of course, this i

One user's private information could get sent to another user, or you could have a subslice that gets "validated" and then overwritten. Edit: Of course, this isn't exclusive to data races, this can happen with anything that decides to save the slice for a while, without, say, defensively copying it, when some other code decides to reuse it.