Some hard to swallow pills for tech companies in 2026: data not collected in the first place cannot leak.

SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Followed by deleting data once you've used it for its stated purpose.

Personal data needs to be much more of a liability than it currently is for anything to change. Business will respond when the bottom line is affected.

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fn-mote 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the abstract, yes.

In the case of a university like the head of this thread, it isn’t going to be easy to avoid collecting and retaining data.

	▲	markhahn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		that's the odd thing: we simply don't ask whether there's an alternative. for instance, how many companies (including universities) store their own cash on prem? what if we treated PII like cash? limit amount and time kept outside the data "bank" (which would be a third party specialized for security and authenticating access).

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gregglain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not collect data? Heresy!