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Recently a data platform was breached exposing personal information, location, photos, and other demographics of displaced families receiving cash assistance from an NGO. We have a responsibility as humanitarian service providers to better protect data and act responsibly with data, but what should that look like? Is this a wake-up call for the humanitarian community to raise data protection and privacy to an important and urgent issue? Do we need new mechanisms to keep us accountable?\nRead about the breach here: https://www.irinnews.org/opinion/2017/12/08/humanitarian-data-breaches-real-scandal-our-collective-inaction