Post by @randahl@mastodon.social

Very serious news headlines in Denmark today, after Danish Police has confirmed a technical glitch has lead to the deletion of data in the Danish Crime Registry.

Certain records of serious crimes committed by some criminals are unavailable. This means, the police is unable to confirm that a person being hired for a kindergarten job is not a convicted pedophile, or a person seeking a rifle permit is not a violent criminal.

Considerable resources are now committed to recreate the registry.

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lazydev

@lazydev@camp.smolnet.org 33 min. ago

@randahl https://xkcd.com/327/

xkcd

Exploits of a Mom

lopta

@lopta@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

@randahl We're they backed up onto something like WORM tape?

Richard Cantzler

@cantzler@techhub.social 1 hr. ago

@randahl thanks Claude!

Grant

@gsymon@mstdn.social 1 hr. ago

@randahl

But of course, they will have backups and archives. I mean... who wouldn't??

Randahl Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social 56 min. ago

@gsymon I think the problem is, you cannot just revert to backup, if a technical glitch has been going on for a long time, while you have updated the registry. Then neither the backup nor the present state of the registry is correct.

Richard

@richrants@mainz.social 33 min. ago

@randahl @gsymon Let me guess: They bought software from the US that didn’t save any crimes for people with strange symbols like å, ø and æ in their names?