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Can you link to this? Searching for "CNIL", "75,000" and "2017" doesn't turn up anything useful.
by vertex-four 8y ago
Can you link to this? Searching for "CNIL", "75,000" and "2017" doesn't turn up anything useful.
- delroth 8y agohttps://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/styles/protection-des-donnees-insuffisante-la-cnil-sanctionne-une-association_2021119.html https://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/styles/protection-des-d... tl;dr: a non-profit got fined 75K€ because their website leaked 42,562 private documents from their users. Anyone could modify numbers in the URL and read other users' documents. The documents included passports, tax information, identity documents, and more. EDIT: better source: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/sanction-de-75-000-euros-pour-une-atteinte-la-securite-des-donnees-de-demandeurs-de-logements https://www.cnil.fr/fr/sanction-de-75-000-euros-pour-une-att...
- vertex-four 8y agoOof, I can see why then. On the other hand, if you're not storing people's passports... is this really something you should be worried about? And shouldn't somebody who's intentionally storing thousands of passports be required to implement basic security practices?