THE SIMPLE ACT OF COLLECTING DATA IS DANGEROUS

Let's illustrate with a silly example: Imagine if you had filmed yourself every time you got drunk, right from the first sip

(ok, assuming you were once a teenager who did a lot of silly things. If you've never drunk, substitute it with anything you wouldn't like to see circulating publicly).

Those videos would be quite embarrassing if shared, right? The best way to avoid that is simply NOT TO FILM.

Even if you try to protect the videos, even if a constitutional amendment guarantees that it's unlawful to try and access those compromising videos... the risk of them leaking later is still greater than if you had never filmed them in the first place.

Well, this directly relates to the new technology for tracking our carbon footprint. They want to measure everything: how and where we travel, what we eat, what we buy. You think that might be useful?

But think about this: such data is like those embarrassing videos. Once they are collected, they exist. And if they exist, there will always be the risk of someone, at some point, accessing them. And using them in a quite unexpected context.

I'll leave it to you guys to comment on what the possible problems are.

Video 02 of the #bitcoin short series