Only The Minister Of Sweden Dares To Resign Due To Leaks Of Personal And State Data

The Prime Minister (PM) of Sweden, Stefan Lofven, who was also criticized by the people for not being able to protect personal data and the country. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - Leakage of personal and state data is a scourge that is feared by the world. Sweden has felt it. The government is made a lot of fog with leaked data managed by government servers. As a result, many personal identities and state secrets can be accessed by outsiders.

The problem is categorized as the most dangerous violation of the law for Swedish citizens. The people continue to criticize. The owner of power lost his face. As a form of responsibility for the government's failure to protect the data, two ministers resigned.

The threat of breaking personal data and the state is not kidding. National stability can be disrupted. The people have no sense of security and are vulnerable to cyber crime. Especially if the data that concedes is sensitive and confidential. A country can lose its face.

The narrative is not much different from the incident of data breaching in Sweden which only emerged in 2017. Initially, the Swedish government entrusted data guard affairs to technology company IBM Sweden.

Later the Swedish Transportation Agency tried to take over data security in 2015. The goal is that they have access to vehicle registration data and SIMs. It is said that the main cause of data transfer is due to the data protection budget which is often cut.

The Swedish Transportation Agency then carelessly used personnel from foreign technicians, from the Republic of Czechia, Serbia, to Romania. The use of outside technicians brought problems. The owner of the power of attorney handed over the keys to the country's security to the intruder.

The Swedish Transportation Agency in fact does not only have access to vehicle and SIM data. Other data is also managed, such as information on intelligence agents, transportation, military personnel, police, to criminal records.

Disasters arise. Several times people from outside Sweden -- especially the Czech Republic can access the confidential data. The sensitive data can be accessed not by hacking or breaking into security systems like in other countries.

The breach of data was purely ignored and careless by the government in protecting data from foreign technicians. National security was shaken. The Swedish people are busy condemning the government for failing to fully protect the national 'hart'.

The transportation agency manages millions of records and personal data about the country's defense infrastructure. Anyone who has a driver's license, and motorists who pay for toll roads in Stockholm, as well as pilots, train conductors, and air traffic controllers.

"Through this information it is also possible to track people with protected identities, armored vehicles, lost vehicles and when and when the transportation of valuables and money is scheduled," said Christina Anderson in her article on The New York Times website entitled Swedish Governmentmbles to Contain Management From Data Breach (2017).

The criticism of the government's blunder of maintaining the security of personal and confidential data is questioned. Sweden's Prime Minister (PM), Stefan Lofven, tried to install the body. He considers data conceding is a serious problem.

He also believes that the problem of data conceding has disturbed and endangered the Swedish people. Lofven also acted decisively. The Director General of the Swedish Transportation Agency, Maria Agren, has been fired. Agren is considered by the government as the person most responsible for data leakage.

Lofven considers Agren, who uses outside technicians, to have carelessly ignored the Law designed to protect security and privacy around personal and confidential data. The decision brought strong pressure from the Swedish people.

The Swedish people want ministerial caliber officials to be responsible for data leakage. The demands were successful. The two most responsible ministers immediately resigned. One, the Minister of Home Affairs, Anders Ygeman and the Minister of Infrastructure, Anna Johansson.

This resignation is a form of responsibility for failing to fully maintain personal and confidential data. The resignation is proof that many government officials do not know - sometimes underestimate how to maintain data security.

The Swedish government is still investigating the possibility of other state officials being negligent. The Swedish people also voiced that the Swedish Minister of Defense, Peter Hultqvist, would resign. Even though it didn't work.

Peter was accused of neglecting to report the incident of data breach immediately to the Swedish PM. This assumption is because many state officials have listened to information on data breaches since 2016. However, none gave the Swedish PM, Lofven.

The investigation follows a cabinet reshuffle last week in which Anders' interior minister Ygeman and infrastructure minister Anna Johansson stepped down after what prime minister Stefan L\"ofven called a very serious security breach, "said Jon Henley in his article on The Guardian website titled Swedenmbles to Tighten Data Security as Scandal Claims Two Ministers (2017).