Accountability for Humanitarian Data Breaches

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Recently a data platform was breached exposing personal information, location, photos, and other demographics of displaced families receiving cash assistance from an NGO. We have a responsibility as humanitarian service providers to better protect data and act responsibly with data, but what should that look like? Is this a wake-up call for the humanitarian community to raise data protection and privacy to an important and urgent issue? Do we need new mechanisms to keep us accountable? Read about the breach here: https://www.irinnews.org/opinion/2017/12/08/humanitarian-data-breaches-real-scandal-our-collective-inaction