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Sweden’s Transport Agency moved all of its data to “the cloud”

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> ...as managed by IBM, two years ago.

Has anything followed a phrase like that successfully in recent years?

> trial where a Director General in Sweden was fined half a month’s pay. Given how much the establishment has got each other’s backs, this sentence was roughly equivalent to life in prison for a common person...

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Could anybody please elaborate, in which way the mishandling happened? The author seems to claim it happened because of cloud management personell, but from linked articles it seems swedish agency staff has published wrong datasets. So this exact leak is not up to how cloud was handled, but how the data (regardless of where stored) was handled by authorized personell, no?

Both. To make a project deadline, the department head signed a waiver to bring on personal without security clearance.

Apparently, companies may subscribe to the vehicle registry. One batch contained people with protected identities. Instead of asking customers to destroy the registry and sending a new, without sensitive information, the Transport Agency sent an open e-mail with all registration and chassis numbers of all those cars owned by persons with a protected identity. The companies were then asked to clean the sensitive data themselves.

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Wow.

Until about halfway through the article I thought this was satire. Sadly, I was mistaken.

The final conclusion is a bit bizarre, how can one possibly be responsible for maintaining one's own privacy given this revelation?

I think it is a crime to mislead your government as to your own identity and address so they can't leak it with their knowledge of any special role you have with them.. One can at best change behaviors to not have private data. I.e. refuse government positions, refuse to bear witness, etc.

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