Your information is constantly being tracked, tagged, logged and stored. Today there are countless complications that come with the rapid development of digital technologies. In previous times, everything was done with pens, on paper or recorded on film. With physical data there is only so much room to store things before you need to clear out your records or empty your filing cabinet.

However, in today's world everything is digital. All information is now 'archived' in a database amongst millions of other records on the ever-growing Internet. All of your bank records, all of your emails, text messages and records of all your calls and transactions are all stored for longer and longer periods.

There are plenty of risks. By their very nature digital records are easy to manipulate. It's far easier to pluck your name from a database and change something than it was from a vault.s worth of filing cabinets. Today.s video software can change, shape, warp or edit your actions recorded on CCTV cameras to look incredibly sinister with a few short clicks. Editing software gets better and better and cheaper and cheaper each day, while now there would most likely be traces in edited videos the same may not be true in the future.

Right now lawyers and barristers require that any recordings done with suspects must be recorded on a tape recorder. They don't trust digital recordings as they are too easily manipulated.

Every month there are news reports from one country or another about records being lost, or bank details being miss-delivered. At the end of every computer system is a fallible human being; real people who can make mistakes, leave laptops on trains or send the wrong info to the wrong person.

For every day your records are stored there is an added risk that they could be misused or wrongly accessed.