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by Ales375 49 days ago
GDPR has solid fines for data breaches, but this doesn't work for government agencies. Just someone else's money going from one government pocket to another. What they need is an automatic firing of the head of the government agency that suffered a breach. No question asked.
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a34729t 49 days ago
I'd go for mandatory caning, on CSPAN
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selfhoster1312 48 days ago
It's not just one head though. It's 3 different right-wing administrations (Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron) wanting to make everything digital, fighting against the unions, fighting against the users, and fighting against any common-sense administrator so they can destroy public services, close down local government service branches (La Poste, sécurité sociale, etc).

It was always an entire fuck up. There was no way it was anything else than an entire fuck up. The "highest level of security" (ANTS) leak is just the cherry on the top. Time to get the guillotine out of the garage i guess?

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zorobo 48 days ago
> It's 3 different right-wing administrations (Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron)

So now socialists are right wing? Who isn’t then? Kim Jong Un maybe?

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selfhoster1312 47 days ago
It's hard to say otherwise. They were moderate left in the 80s when they were doing nationalizations and pro-worker reforms. They've embraced free market in the 90s which is arguably not very left-wing. Leaving aside same-sex marriage for a minute, Hollande's rule was well-known for social regressions for workers (Loi travail) and minorities (Déchéance de nationalité, taking 7 year-old children into police custody for thought crimes), and handouts for wealthy elites (CICE). That, and systematically continuing to destroy public services that Sarkozy already harmed. That can hardly be called left-wing in my book... unless you'd like to name left-wing policies introduced under Hollande?
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zorobo 45 days ago
Hollande? Exemption for capital gains on investment property pushed from 15 to 30 years retention. Repelled sarkozys state financing tuition for French schools abroad. Many other examples that no self respecting right wing politician would promulgate. Hollande was (is) socialist.
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