At I wrote a while back in another editorial thread, we gather way too much data. And most of it is without pre-defined purpose, low structured and is never actually used. And when it does get used, the low quality gets in the way. But since the person making the call to capture "everything" never directly feels the downside of it, that falls on the IT guys, what other decision is there to make? People are indecisive without knowledge, which equals store everything in this context. It looks safer from a leader perspective to store data that you never use, then it is to not store it and that being used against you when you find out you do need the data later on. Such is human psychology. The reality ofcourse is that just storing data without thinking about its use and the required structure is just as bad as not storing it at all and needing it later on.