Are We Really Ready For the Future?

September 10, 2006

So I saw that Chase recently threw out 2.6 million customer records the other day, and it really got me thinking. It seems recently I have seen too many innocents like this, where some company looses or accidentally releases customers personal information. The worse part, is we as consumers end up paying for it. If not in credit card fraud and identity theft, we are the ones that have to pay for services to make sure these things do not happen to us. These days it’s hard to avoid these things as a consumer, because even if you do not share your information over the Internet; chances are a company you use does. It really concerns me that more and more companies are doing more and more work though online services. It’s great that these companies are taking advantage of technologies, but it really bothers me that they do not realize how fragile data can be. Punishments and fines are nothing for a company like Chase, so it mostly ends at making a press release in the form of an apology. I just do not know if we are really ready for what the future holds. It’s a big concern for me, because there have too many incidents like this lately.

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