Crime victims’ social security numbers leaked – in public judgments

It happens that children are listed with names and full social security numbers in cases involving, among other things, child welfare violations, according to the radio.

The new system for writing judgments has been running for almost a year, and personal data has reportedly been revealed in several district courts in the country.

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Jan Josefsson, head of unit at the Norwegian Courts Administration and responsible for the introduction of the new system, says that the problem was discovered within a month after the system was launched.

– The best is, of course, if the social security number is not included. Of course, we received many comments on this. And relatively soon after commissioning, maybe a month, we removed the information about social security numbers, he says to the radio.

According to Ekot, several judgments have been written with social security numbers after the date when the bug should have been fixed.
– It is deeply unfortunate. The young children have no way to recover from this, says Sven-Erik Alhem, chairman of the Crime Victims’ Shelter

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