That's an effect of certain poorly-made security decisions.
For example, if a small organization such as a gym or school makes copies of all customer/user driver's licenses: They end up creating a small pile of gold that they can't afford to protect.
Don't ask for data you can't securely store. I think that's just common sense. If you keep the data on paper, you wouldn't leave it out in the open for anyone to take it would you?
