thats word games. we all know ppl will do what is expedient or what they start out doing etc not choose for real reason like privacy. there is no reason to ignore this while promoting such a facile approach unless you have some desire to have insight or control into the data that traverses your server.

lemme make this easy. I have been telling sysadmins, dba, and all othe minders of the SLAs for decades. The data is not yours. dont look at it. dont munge it, dont process it, dont friggin mess with it.

This is why sysadmins and service providers have been bottom of tech totem from the beginning. Them, sales and desktop support. Because when they get a chance they pull the data grab and sniff. They are like data perverts.

Leave the data alone. is not urs. why do you want to see it perv?