Submitted on Monday 7th December 2015
Rejected on Thursday 10th December 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make storing British citizens data insecurely a criminal offense.
There have been too many instances of peoples data being stored without adequate security. Companies that store our data without taking reasonable steps to hash and encrypt this data should be held liable and executives charged with criminal negligence.
In this day there is no excuse for British citizens data to be held without encryption or hashing. There are widely available techniques to secure this data with minimal cost to enable this. Industry standards exist to protect private data and yet they are routinely not adhered to.
The Vtech hack is just the latest in a series of data breaches. It's long past time that the government stepped in to force companies to secure our personal information.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/111102
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