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Humanitarian data breaches: the real scandal is our collective inaction

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Dissent

Nathaniel A. Raymond, Daniel P. Scarnecchia, and Stuart R. Campo write:

The news that a platform used by at least 11 major operational NGOs and UN agencies may be relatively easy to breach, potentially exposing the personal, location, and demographic data of tens of thousands of highly vulnerable people, is deeply disturbing but not surprising. The real scandal here is not that these vulnerabilities reportedly exist, but that there is still no intentional, comprehensive agenda or political will to decisively address the root causes of this incident and limit the possible fallout.

Reports last month, from Devex and IRIN, that Red Rose’s beneficiary data tracking platform may have serious security vulnerabilities should be a wake-up call to the entire humanitarian sector.

Read more on IRIN.

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