We human beings have a tendency to perceive some relatively harmlessthings as dangerous while we ignore dangerous things we ought to be worrying about.
"We have seen an epidemic of excuses wrongly citing health and safety as a reason to prevent people from doing pretty harmlessthings with only very minor risks attached, " he said.
They might think that this information is harmless, but simple things such as knowing where someone banks or what they buy on a regular basis could allow hackers or fraudsters to make use social engineering tricks to get access to confidential information.