Steve said
The good side is that trustworthy, and skilled, DBAs become more and more valuable all the time. That should mean higher salaries in the future.
I can agree that that is good, but if I had to name "the good side" I would say that the good side is that it increases the interests of corporations in keeping my data secure, which decreases the risk of my privacy being sacrificed completely for some big company's corporate gain.
Sure, I recognise that discouragement of "losing" (usually an euphemism for disclosing or broadcasting) my data may decrease the chance of people with a record of dishonest disclosure of personal data getting a job. And that sounds far more important than those "higher salaries in the future".
As far as I can make out, my attitude is far from common in the US. Most Americans believe in the good old "you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide" mantra and haven't read 1984. But I was surprised and shocked by this editorial, I thought people concerned with databases would have a different approach, but no, the higher salary is the editorial's closing word.
Steve, I may be misunderstanding you (I hope so) and if so please let me know.
Tom