Include Me Out
Sam Goldwyn maybe had his syntax a little mixed up in that famous statement but there wasn’t much doubt that what he intended was to be left out of whatever deal was cooking at the time. I feel the same about the horrors revealed one day after the next in the data management business. What we have is a massive failure to manage data.
When Congress mulls this one over and it comes to deciding who pays, include me out.
My bank requires information before they’ll lend me money. So does anyone extending me credit and thus the choice to comply was not mine unless I was satisfied to live in a cave and sit out the consumer economy. Various laws, tons of laws, piles and heaps and mountains of laws require that information thus given be protected. My doctor, my school, my government, they’re all parties to this obligation. My obligation under this contract is to use the money for the stated purpose and, short of the bankruptcy laws, pay it back. The lender on the other side of this equatio…