I don't know if if I've got my old man hat on, or what, but this seems normal. The data is there. Some people would like to get to it. Of course this kind of thing is going to happen. Technically speaking, that is. That submitting to it could somehow be a requirement for getting a job/apartment though is a different story, of course. Hopefully something that can be regulated or managed a bit better, this is a scary road to be going down. There's no stopping technology from getting all up in our lives though. If it's possible, it will likely happen. I'm curious as to when we'll have a real-time view of how many people are alive on the planet at any given moment, with my old man-hat on, I proclaim that moment to be the moment when technology can do so much, we're screwed.

You think yours would be better somehow?

The budget for DR testing much be HUGE in your company.

This is quite a moment for something like this to happen in HP. As they are slap in the middle of a fairly significant restructuring of the organization (or at least a good part of it) and in so doing losing the confidence of their clients and engineers, this is not going to do any good whatsoever for the low rumbles of dissent one can hear in the place. Funny story; a lot of euros worth of account support was going from a certain destination to another. Let's say, Europe to Africa. This process was about 7 months into implementation - I'm talking RACIs, knowledge transfers and pending handovers - when woops, suddenly all the clients from a certain European nation mention to their ADMs that they have specific contract clauses saying no non-EU sysadmin may access their infrastructure. Clear as day, and not exactly private knowledge given the amount of NDAs one signs upon assuming such a role. However, everything had to be scrapped, people re-hired, everything on-hold while someone pulls a finger out. Like I said, eh, funny..