This is from Vismann, Law and Media Technology;
"This nonerasable file --reminiscent of the repertoire of punitive measures in Kafka's Trial-remains the final threat for the functionaries of the Stasi apparatus. Their last and only hope is that their files may be canceled on Judgment Day, when our sins are erased (exaleiphein) from the divine record that registers all our deeds. A similar hope, though one unrelated to any specific crimes, was expressed in a note left by the philosopher Hans Blumenberg: "Bluntly put, it could be that it is only the file of the condemned that contains his identity, while the 'Book of Life' that is opened on Judgment Day is marked by an abundance of deletions made by overly zealous angels," those heavenly chancery employees.
In the face of earthly accounting procedures, however, such hopes for merciful cancellations are most likely in vain. The question arises of what would come about if everything were indeed registered, once and for all? A perfect order? Striving for the latter has given birth to the well-known organization and control technologies that turn meticulously arranged files into the measure of all order."
In the era of transparency and datafication one should ask this question again; what would come about if everything were indeed registered? This is a similar question Borges asked; "On Exactitude of Science". Will there ever be generation 'not so found of cartography'?