What happened at the last G20 summit? Last week, the Australia πέρασε αναγκαστικά τον νόμο περί διατήρησης μεταδεδομένων, παρά τις αντιρρήσεις που ανέφεραν ότι τα προσωπικά δεδομένα πρέπει να είναι προσβάσιμα από έναν πολύ μικρό αριθμό ανθρώπων και μόνο υπό πολύ ασφαλείς συνθήκες.
Two business days later, Guardian revealed that the government of Australia cannot keep sensitive data, such as, say, a list containing the passport numbers of 31 world leaders.
The publication revealed at the summit G20 held in Australia last November, a list of the personal details of the leaders leaked in error. Microsoft Outlook was the culprit: the sender wanted to send the list to someone else, but the address changed from an unwanted autocomplete.
The person who received the file promised to delete and empty its folders as well as deleted, but obviously did it after the daily backup. From there, no one knows that the sensitive data has leaked
Στα αρχεία που διέρρευσαν λοιπόν υπάρχουν αριθμοί διαβατηρίων από 31 ηγέτες του κόσμου. Ανάμεσα σε αυτούς οι αριθμοί των Barack Obama, Angela Merkel και David Cameron. Όμως ποιος να χρησιμοποιήσει αυτούς τους αριθμούς. Ποιος θα μπορούσε να ζητήσει πράσινη κάρτα από τις USA, using Barack Obama's passport?
Leakage may not mean much of a risk issue but it was quite annoying for Australia, which at the G20 summit was such an unjustified incident.
To mention that the event should awaken, services, companies and governments, as data protection in 2015 does not seem to be an easy task. In addition to malicious third parties, there is always the case of human error.