Tech Japan's new Digital Agency confusing CC and BCC

[thomas]

It's something that happens to all of us. However, it should not happen to Japan's new Digital Agency: they confused the BCC with the CC field and leaked 400 emails in a mass mailer. MAG2 NEWS called Japan a "digitally underdeveloped country" and added jokingly that this wouldn't have happened had they used FAX MACHINES. 😄

デジタル庁“BCCとCC取り違え”メアド流出にネット苦笑。「FAXなら起きなかった」「さすがIT後進国」 - まぐまぐニュース！

デジタル庁が24日、驚きの事実を発表した。なんと、新聞社やテレビ局の記者ら400件のメールアドレスを“間違えて”流出させたというのだ。朝日新聞デジタルなどが25日に報じた。「デジタル庁」と名乗る省庁が、パソコンを使い始め…

www.mag2.com

 

[thomas]

More data leaks are reported, this time by the Chofu Municipal Government.

The personal information of a suburban Tokyo resident who filed freedom of information requests on a sinkhole accident was leaked nine times between June and October 2021 in local government communications with affiliated parties, it has emerged. The 74-year-old resident submitted the request in connection with an October 2020 incident in which a large hole opened up in the road along a tunnel construction route for the Tokyo Outer Ring Road. His name and other personal information were disclosed by the Chofu Municipal Government to three parties affiliated with the work on the road. Leaking information from which individuals who filed the right-to-information requests can be identified is an act that rocks the disclosure system's foundational aims for open administration.

Tokyo suburban gov't leaked name of resident who made freedom of info requests - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- The personal information of a suburban Tokyo resident who filed freedom of information requests on a sinkhole accident was leaked nine times

mainichi.jp

 

[日本語 Class]

Wow these are too bad