This highlights the core question of property rights applied to private data.
Surely individuals must have the same rights in this regard as governments and large corporations whose database may have been stolen?
The wisdom of the decision about where to store that data should not be important in law, as long as there was a reasonable expectation not to have it stolen.
We are not even talking about just unauthorised access to private data but about deleting it altogether! Once they get away with this, no data will ever be safe again.
Surely individuals must have the same rights in this regard as governments and large corporations whose database may have been stolen?
The wisdom of the decision about where to store that data should not be important in law, as long as there was a reasonable expectation not to have it stolen.
We are not even talking about just unauthorised access to private data but about deleting it altogether! Once they get away with this, no data will ever be safe again.