1. Spurious data held in a database through error,
incompetence, poor design, poor
maintenance, age, misplaced user priorities, but usually due to a subtle confluence of all of these factors.
2. Data that will never, ever be used and is recorded merely because it can be, or must be due to regulation.
3. The lowest qualitative measure in the epistemological hierarchy of wisdom, knowledge,
information, data, gumpf.