Comment Comment by ecdavis The one doesn't excuse the other; if you're required to keep this data you should be treating it with the respect it deserves.That said, yes: government legislators and regulators have been zealously telling private companies to hoover up sensitive PII for years. Here's ACMA's rules for customer auth for telcos: https://www.acma.gov.au/customer-identity-authentication-rul...There are efforts underway to enable complying with these rules _without_ hoovering up data, but they are not progressing nearly as fast as they need to. parent ecdavis 4 years ago
That said, yes: government legislators and regulators have been zealously telling private companies to hoover up sensitive PII for years. Here's ACMA's rules for customer auth for telcos: https://www.acma.gov.au/customer-identity-authentication-rul...
There are efforts underway to enable complying with these rules _without_ hoovering up data, but they are not progressing nearly as fast as they need to.