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Obviously when you make a support request your record should be displayed for the customer service agent, but this is the other way around where they can seek out people. I don't think that's a valid use case and there's the obvious abuse case.


Right, but the solution to that isn't 'encrypt everything', its 'define reasonable (and this definition may vary, but its certainly not "none") access controls for user data and pii'.




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