After bringing Gwen to her father, George Stacy, Henry was no longer responsible for escorting the girl home. Even if he had wanted to take her home himself and let her father keep working overtime, George's glare would probably have defeated him. Henry was not yet thick-skinned enough to use a Kryptonian's face to withstand an old father's murderous gaze.
After returning to East 49th Street to update Grandma on Skye's whereabouts, Henry plunged straight into his room. If he was only working on a computer rather than doing handiwork, he could handle it on East 49th Street. There was no need to deliberately go to the secret base.
Although this was not yet an era where everyone put their privacy online and wished the whole world could see it, one kind of hard data had been online for a long time: all official, educational, medical, insurance, and financial records.
A person's residence, entry and exit records or flight history, administrative citations, police, court, and prison records—even voting records. They would not know whom someone had voted for, but whether they had voted and where they had voted would both be recorded by the authorities.
Schools kept grades from childhood through adulthood, teachers' evaluations, recommendation letters for high school or college. If it was a boarding private school, even more records would be kept.
There were hospital visit records, physical examination results, and basic physiological data such as height, weight, and blood type. The insurance policies someone had joined and the amounts they had claimed. Bank withdrawals, credit card purchases, amounts, locations, and financial investments in stocks and futures.
After the mobile phone era began, there were also records of calls made and connected by phones registered under a person's name. Once phones and cars became continuously connected to the