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"Computer scientists both outside and inside the IT industry need to understand the essence of security and how the data that they collect will affect the overall system. The goal is to mitigate the risk of unintentional data leakage, which leads to other security issues."

From a programming perspective I'd think that the community (of programmers) is growing and developing at a rate much faster than that of the quality control community, and therefore renders the potential of contributing any formidable solution to the security risks addressed in this article are logically unlikely.

From a broader philosophical perspective I'd identify the goal (per its mention in the quote above) as being utopian transparency, where data grows at the organic rate of its interaction with peer data sets. In a world where it is impossible to hide, cultural clichés, capitalistic ambition, political persuasion, and technological distribution have the potential to deliver human kind an "optimal operation rate".

While we could spend our efforts on the aforementioned, mitigating "the risk of unintentional data leakage", it may be more desirable to build strategy to share the incurred risk. A society pervasively vulnerable is a vigilant society.