It’s not just data breaches, although that is a massive concern. It’s not that long since London hospitals had a massive ransomware attack.
Ransom by nefarious people, whether they’re funded by rich stupid teens in bedrooms or bad political political actors is bad enough.
The other half is who trusts this government, in the political direction of our times, following the gradual assimilation of ownership of all material that’s ever been made publicly accessible? Do you trust a state run by elites we have little day-to-day control over? Do you trust a state that’s already forced the use of computers everywhere and is now seriously talking about forcing AI? That is apparently seriously putting out concerns about water shortages in this Atlantic island for their AI ambitions? In a political climate where artists have already had to start campaigns to stop government assumptions of ownership over all creative work produced here, past, present and future? A state that doesn’t even bother to ask how high before it jumps for America, that’s oh-so-proud of its ‘open’, entirely vulnerable economy?
Start thinking about the value of information because we have already lost so much access to it.