It's less about privacy and more about outright security, Dave. Last year, I had 8 death threats (it was a quiet year) and, although I'm a weapons collector, I practise good security measures online, and offline. I collect death threats, also, and I've not had even one, this year - I should complain, really.
I'll be coming back to post, here, as often as I see a post for which I might have a useful comment to make.
Did the old database get deleted, or damaged by some software/server switching?