what is a data breach? Town Hall leaks my phone number and address to criminals after "cyber upgrade" – this is what happens when common sense is replaced with computers.
Remember when the town clerk kept a ledger in a locked drawer? No "data breach" risk there, just common sense. Now, after our town paid $50,000 for a "digital transformation," some hacker halfway across the world has my full name, street address, and the fact that I owe $287 in back taxes. The town manager says, "We apologize for the inconvenience," but I say this is what happens when you trust a touchscreen over a filing cabinet. Maybe we need to go back to paper ballots and cash only before our entire life story ends up on the dark web.