With banks coming under pressure to take better care of customer data, and government organisations losing large amounts of information seemingly ever other day, perhaps the Italian authorities have found the solution.

For reasons of “transparency”, the Italian tax authorities have published the salary details of all tax-payers – not as high a proportion of the working population as the treasury might reasonably hope – on a website, allowing everyone to check on their neighbours, bosses, and relatives.

Simple: don’t lose or leak data, or risk having it stolen – just freely publish it.

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