Irrelevant

Why is everyone getting so hung up over the lack of encryption. If you have the data available, no encryption can survive. It will eventually be broken, it just requires enough processing power. So, encryption merely stops someone who stumbles upon the disk, has a look and then throws it away as rubbish. If the disk is targetted by someone, they probably have the inclination to seriously attack the encryption and therefore, over time, will break it. So, encryption only protects the data if the data becomes useless after a certain time. This data does not really fit into this category.

So, rather than being a panacea to all data privacy issues, encryption actually has a limited use. Yes, it can work in some circumstances, but if the data is persistent, the only answer is to stop people intercepting it.