Data leaks are a design flaw, not bad luck
Odido. The municipality of Epe, where the records of nearly all residents were stolen. The breast-cancer screening programme covering hundreds of thousands of women. Even the Dutch Data Protection Authority itself. Over the past months a new leak seems to land every week, and the response is always the same: better security, harsher fines, faster mandatory reporting. All sensible, but they are bandages on a deeper wound. Our data is in the wrong place.