Nothing really new here sadly, this information about me have leaked half a dozen of times in the past 2-3 years or so. These things will never change if the only penalty the company/agency gets is "send a message to your users saying you are sorry and that it won’t happen again".

Ironically it changes nothing for me as that same data had already been leaked by the French government agency that handles unemployment benefits a couple years ago. Silly me had not bothered deleting that account even after it was no longer necessary due to finding a new job.

If you want to build a society on information, then you cannot forget the most important group.

Like they didn't have access to it anyway.

It also ensured democratic participation by all of the people employed there making sure that processes are followed and making sure no one is cheating.

We all knew that systems like this would get breached. It’s not a matter of, “if,” but, “when.” If we’re going to continue down this route because of convenience or surveillance and authoritarianism or whatever; people designing these systems need to thinking: When this system is breached…. And they should make sure there’s a good story for protecting people and the system from these sorts of events.

It's the age of the leak and the sooner we accept, no matter our efforts, we live in a security free world and design around that - the better

This is a major reason as to why I am so strongly against all this verification shit governments keep trying to push, the best way to keep data secure is not to have it in the first place, therefore my personal data should not leave my device except in the strictest of circumstances for things like my name/DOB/address/SSN.

„Small, not harmful leak of non important data, few records only”

They were probably screwed as f... or they had/have some interests somewhere ($$$).

In the last decade, all web sites were broken to be replaced by web apps ($$$), creating a hard dependency on the massively huge and complex "whatng cartel" web engines and their related massively complex c++ compilers. It is very hard to believe to anything else than corruption, really hard.

This document, which is law, which only the president and prime minister have power on, must be modified to make the difference between web sites and web apps and to mandate a web site for core and critical online services of gov and dependencies. Aka, restore noscript/basic (x)html interoperability, or "small" and technically reasonable web engines (to foster real-life alternatives from citizen, local company, etc, initiatives). All of such online services had a working web site (no app) before this document sold the gov and its dependencies to big tech (here the "whatng cartel").

No gov authorities (competition/anti-trust, justice, etc), not even the parliaments can do anything here, only the president and the prime minister.

Hardly believable, and I found out only a month ago, in spite of consulting lawyers, being part of related user groups with legal experts, etc, for 10 years. I could not understand what was going on, all this money and 'loss of strategic control' channelled in those 'companies'.

There will be zero risks to you of course, because their software is magically perfect, unlike any other software created in the history of mankind.

Or are they magically exempt?

They hack the taxes and the heath insurance system and yhay have everything about us.

What a shitty world because of these idiots

Google selling data? So far no one came to blackmail me for certain dispositions, while the other does as they want, IRS, foreign governments, social security whatever.

Google can be sued while the other gives itself a pass.

Who is the baddie?

In Germany the administration put massive duties on IT providers and added punitive damage as a looming consequence.

Fast forward and the government with its “Ha, we are so digital!” and “Europe is better than US in CS!” suddenly has to swallow some brutal medicine I guess.

I stick to my guns: Silicon Valley and especially Google is art regarding code and CS evolution. Same for FAANG etc.

EU is hubris to say the least.

Every time someone says “Let’s build our own Google/Cloud/…” a penguin dies.

E Invoice will be a brutal boomerang, XRechnung the greatest backdoor of all times.

Your data, time to shift everything into the EU.