Permanent

Seasoned audience would soon find the loophole of my story yesterday:

Our administrators do not have to protect privacy, they merely want to appear to be doing so - in the eyes of the media and our honorable council members. (You may consider there is actually no difference between the two. That's another story.)

At this point, let me tell you another series of communication between Neptune and a small group of people on earth:

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"Look. This is a new computer system that we put up to help your chronic management of XXX."

"It sounds brilliant. Em ... How do we key in the data if we treat XXX only temporarily ?"

"No, you cannot use the system in that case - it is only designated for the permanent care."

"Then how could this gadget help ? Actually we have to do more work and decide who and when should be included into the system."

"Oh, the system is not to help your work; we have it to reflect the workload."

"But much of our time is spent on this so-called temporary care ! How could the system reflect our workload ?"

"No, it does not reflect your workload - it reflects ours."

PS. What is temporary and what is permanent ? I shall leave this question of supreme importance some time later. According to the bible, only god is permanent.