The idea of that data ending up in new undetermined hands may-or-may-not be a worse thing, but it reminds me of this bit from Making Money, by Terry Pratchett:

> 'Vetinari, are we to believe that you knowingly put the most important bank in the city into the charge of a known bank robber?'

> [...] 'Should he have left it in the hands of unknown bank robbers?'