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Article didn’t mention the best part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle Basically the govern

Article didn’t mention the best part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle Basically the government isn’t allowed to ask you for any information more than once. They already know!

andix 4y ago
That sounds scary.
- skeletal88 4y ago
  Can you explain why? Why would having every government department, hospital, doctors/dentists office keep your data separately, probably in some unsecured excel file or whatever? When we have one registry for everything, they can keep it secure by having some proper security guys design and audit it, we can see who has accessed my data and when, etc. If a hospital would keep your health records in their own system then.. they'd probably have some low paid IT guy design something and leak it accidentally online.
  - andix 4y ago
    Because I don’t want them to connect all the data without my consent. I don’t want single government employees to have access to all my data at once.
    - LinkLink 4y ago
      hahahahaahahahahahahhaahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 10 years ago people would have called you paranoid now you're already too late
    - viburnum 4y ago
      Can't find the source now but I read somewhere that in Estonia anytime somebody accesses your info you get notified who it was.
    - mendigou 4y ago
      That's all good in theory. In practice, it's just a massive time sink for citizens. I know because I'm going through some of it right now for regularizig an inheritance and I've wasted so much time, but having this data separate has brought nothing to my privacy. In fact, given the legacy systems, I'd argue I have less privacy because there are fewer (or no) controls. On the other hand, when these connected systems are in place it's not like employees can just tap your name and get the data, there is some Auth process with your eID/certificate. It all boils down to people's trust in the government. In Scandinavian countries that trust is high. In Southern European countries it's very low (and much lower in the US).

andix 4y ago

That sounds scary.

skeletal88 4y ago
Can you explain why? Why would having every government department, hospital, doctors/dentists office keep your data separately, probably in some unsecured excel file or whatever? When we have one registry for everything, they can keep it secure by having some proper security guys design and audit it, we can see who has accessed my data and when, etc. If a hospital would keep your health records in their own system then.. they'd probably have some low paid IT guy design something and leak it accidentally online.
- andix 4y ago
  Because I don’t want them to connect all the data without my consent. I don’t want single government employees to have access to all my data at once.
  - LinkLink 4y ago
    hahahahaahahahahahahhaahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 10 years ago people would have called you paranoid now you're already too late
  - viburnum 4y ago
    Can't find the source now but I read somewhere that in Estonia anytime somebody accesses your info you get notified who it was.
  - mendigou 4y ago
    That's all good in theory. In practice, it's just a massive time sink for citizens. I know because I'm going through some of it right now for regularizig an inheritance and I've wasted so much time, but having this data separate has brought nothing to my privacy. In fact, given the legacy systems, I'd argue I have less privacy because there are fewer (or no) controls. On the other hand, when these connected systems are in place it's not like employees can just tap your name and get the data, there is some Auth process with your eID/certificate. It all boils down to people's trust in the government. In Scandinavian countries that trust is high. In Southern European countries it's very low (and much lower in the US).