The Digital Media Center in Iraq warned today, Tuesday, of millions of personal data leakage of citizens, and called for setting mechanisms and controls that would protect the special data of the Iraqis..
The Iraqi News Agency quoted the center as confirming that "computers in government institutions often contain important and sensitive information, and as a result of the update and continuous development, they may be replaced and dealt with the old as ordinary waste that is being disposed of without undergoing special operations that ensure that the information is not retrievedThe stored if it was seized by others..
In its statement, the center pointed out that "even if the data is deleted in the usual ways, many parties can recover the information within the hard disks and thus exploit them in one way or another to achieve certain gains, even if these tablets are damaged or destroyed.".
The center called on the competent authorities in the Iraqi government to set "specific controls and criteria to deal with the old electronic devices that government institutions dispense with, as well as defining the mechanisms of receiving citizens 'data through electronic forms and other digital methods to ensure the protection of citizens' security and their digital privacy".
