At least they didn't mail a CD containing data on 5 million danes directly to the Chinese this time.
It really is a nothing burger this data has been leak multiple times, and is easy for any bad actor to get their hands on at any time should they need to.
tamimio 1 day ago||
Lol, I remember few months ago here in HN and some swedish or danish user telling how they are happy with the amazing cashless system and society there and how it’s better than cash.. there you go, breaches happen and so it blackouts.
That being said, one of the issues is private companies are allowed to request personal and private information, no matter how security is, it’s eminent to get hacked or phished, like revoult, I wanted to use their platform weeks ago and they requested to “verify my ID” refused and didn’t use it, few weeks later and they suffer a data breach because some idiot employee emailed the data to someone saying they are gov.. you can never trust, zero trust in fact. Instead, there should be a way (like tokenization) to prove the identity without the 90s method of scanning the ID like how we used to fax things back then, except it was more secure that way ironically.
rvz 1 day ago||
Let me guess, the Danish government will find a way to prove that GDPR doesn't apply to them.
But this is incredibly bad.
shiandow 1 day ago|
It does apply but they were allowed to have this data and GDPR does very little to protect it in that case.