Information Agency – Reviews by Miłosz Manasterski: 2 weeks after the attack on MyDr, which according to the government's information could cover data of nearly nineteen million Poles, the government wanted to build another large collection — this time with PESEL numbers, photos, ratings and attendance of students. president Karol Nawrocki refused to sign. Is the country, which, after 2 weeks, inactive can't tell citizens if their data has been leaked, ready to build specified a large database about Polish children?
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- Everything under 1 roof
- Lesson 2 Weeks ago
- From Apricots to MyDr
- Two 100 and sixteen million and a question of proportions
- m Evidence yes, e diary no
- Who's the lobbyist?
- Who's the Manaster Love?
- Information Agency – basic information
Everything under 1 roof
The Ptolemeus came up with an thought that seems superb to this day: to gather as full a collection of cognition as possible in 1 institution. According to later messages, all ship entering the Alexandrian port was searched, and the scrolls found were sent to the scriptorium — the owner was given a copy, the first remained in the library. Kallimach described this collection in a 100 and 20 books of the catalogue, and for respective generations Alexandria was a place where mankind truly knew what it knew.
Then the library disappeared. Not in 1 night and not in 1 fire — first a fire in the port behind Caesar, then another war, cuts, and indifference of successive rulers. The perfect collection proved to be a fragile harvest, due to the fact that its value and its weakness had the same source: everything was in 1 place. Twenty-three centuries later, the same temptation returns, with the difference that present the collection does not request a building, a server suffices. And the server, unlike the scroll, is robbed remotely, wholesalely and without witnesses.
Lesson 2 Weeks ago
On 12 August, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski reported the attack on MyDr — a software utilized by about 12 1000 medical facilities. The Ministry of Digital Affairs spoke of a stolen database exceeding 2 terabytes and of data of nearly nineteen million patients: PESEL numbers, drug information, prescriptions, visits and medical records. The company itself wrote more carefully in a communication dated 14 August, about "archive resources, mainly from 2024 and earlier years". The investigation is conducted by the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime under the supervision of the territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw, the control has besides been initiated by the UODO.
The most concrete advice that the state had for the citizen at that minute was: reserve PESEL in mCitizen. It's hard to deny her the right thing, but hygiene is the work of the victim here, not of who spilled it. On 18 August, the company acknowledged that it was only "at the final phase of determining" the degree of the incident, and the services inactive established the circumstances of the incident. The government portal safedane.gov.pl data from MyDr did not yet contain.
Gawkowski called the case 1 of the biggest incidents in Poland's past and announced that the perpetrators would be prosecuted without mercy. They most likely will. but the data, erstwhile removed, doesn't come back. If there is information about a diagnosis 10 years ago, it cannot be invalidated like a payment card or guaranteed that all copies have disappeared.
From Apricots to MyDr
Whoever considers this case an accident at work has not read the chronicles of fresh years. In 2019, UODO imposed a evidence punishment on Morele.net's store at the time for the failure of data of more than 2 million customers; the case returned to courts for years. In November 2023, Ransomware paralyzed ALAB Laboratories and the results of respective tens of thousands of patients from 2017–2023, together with names, PESELs and addresses were sent to the network. In the following months, further packages were published, including worker data. The ransom company didn't pay, so they paid those who never heard of the ransom.
Four months earlier, in July 2023, the mark was more serious. The attack on the Academy of War Art — a university that educates future commanders — not only removed the data, but destroyed it on site due to the fact that the attackers utilized software to delete the contents of the disks. They published fragments of the letter with names and positions, and the effects could not be removed for weeks: employees had no access to their own computers or business mail. The function of an external service supplier was then indicated — and that is the only thing that has to do with MyDr due to the fact that the attack mechanics was different.
The effect of this series is seen in numbers and this is the saddest part of the story. In an August survey of BGR Quantic, conducted by the CAWI method on a example of 1073 adult Poles, 81.9 percent of the leak was heard. no of these protective measures took 57.2 percent. The PESEL number reserved 2.6 percent, and only 1 in 5 subjects knew precisely where to check if his data had come out. It's not laziness. It is the resignation of a citizen who has long ceased to believe that he is in control of what the state and companies know about him.
And that's erstwhile you come to him with a proposal for another register. Trust is not a soft addition to the task in digitization but a foundation — without it there is coercion. After the PESEL leak was released, 2.6 percent of the respondents were reserved. And at this point, the government wants to convince parents that their children's data in the fresh central strategy will be safe.
Two 100 and sixteen million and a question of proportions
The Ministry of Education prepared the pilotage of the state eDziennik: the start of September 22nd, at least eighteen schools, and since September 2027 the strategy has been made available to the another facilities concerned. It was to be voluntary. The cost of construction and ten-year maintenance was estimated at PLN 216.5 million, the strategy is built by the Ministry of Digitization and Central Centre of Information Technology, and the entrance to it is to be led through mCitizen.
The ministry's arguments should be cited in their strongest version. The parent gains free access to the features for which any suppliers present charge fees, and without advertising. The school gains integration with the Educational Information strategy and little manual copying of the same data. A student who changes schools during a year does not start from scratch. These are real benefits and there's no point in pretending that they're gone. The question is whether their scale justifies the creation of a central strategy covering specified a wide catalogue of information on children.
Because the catalog is wide. PESEL numbers, photographs and addresses of pupils, evaluations, subjects of lessons, attendance and reasons for absence, information on individual needs resulting from recommendations contained in judgments and opinions, as well as contact details of parents, were to be processed. The Association of Polish Districts indicated that this violates the rule of data minimisation. The Polish Chamber of Information and Telecommunications pointed out that the State is acting simultaneously as a marketplace regulator and its participant.
Not each of these information is formally given a circumstantial category within the meaning of the GDPR. But any of them may uncover health, educational needs, or spiritual beliefs — attendance in spiritual lessons allows you to apply for the confession of a child, and dismissal from physical education about his health. They all concern minors who do not decide anything.
m Evidence yes, e diary no
National registers make sense erstwhile they make life easier for a citizen. For this we value mProviding that you don't gotta wear in your wallet, and eRecepta that you don't gotta go to the clinic to get. These are solutions that give something to a citizen in exchange for his data. The digital satchel gives much little — it transfers student documentation from a distributed private marketplace to a single state system. A bit like the Alexandrian port: the first stays in the collection, and the owner gets a copy, present called a preview in the application.
Supporters of the bill answer that present the students are besides in the hands of companies and that there have besides been violations. That's an honest and accurate argument. Centralization does not in itself gotta mean worse safety — a single standard, audit and professional safety squad can be stronger than a twelve solutions of unequal level. However, it has a price: it increases the scope of the effects of 1 successful break-in. Any failure to safe specified a strategy costs incomparably more. This is what MyDr's August communicative is about — 1 software, 12 1000 facilities, 2 terabytes of data.
W Senator Kazimierz Wind of the PiS, a computer scientist and erstwhile manager of the supercomputer center, warned of the hazard of breach in the strategy with 15 million users. The Central Centre of Information Technology responded that its systems, including mCitizen with 12 million users, did not have unauthorised access. It's true, and there's no reason to uncertainty it. Only that mCitizen is simply a wallet for papers that we carry with us anyway, and e diary is expected to be an archive of the course of the full school way of the child. Both bases measurement the same safety measure. Their failure costs a full lot different.
Who's the lobbyist?
The president vetoed the Act on 28 August and began with the reservation that "the thought of introducing digital solutions in the form of eJournal is right and should be implemented". He questioned the way the Ministry of Education approached implementation, and identified 3 problems. The first is children's safety: the bill provides for a central strategy with delicate student data — PESEL numbers, photos, ratings, attendance and information on peculiar educational needs. "If we make specified a immense database, its safety must be an absolute priority. Meanwhile, the bill does not supply adequate guarantees regarding the safety and access to this information," said Karol Nawrocki.
The second problem is costs. More than 2 100 million zlotys from public money require, according to the President, the justification: "The state must be able to clearly show that specified expenditure is essential and rational." The 3rd was organizational chaos — pilotage was moving very quickly, and teachers pointed out that schools needed time, training, and preparation. It's hard to take that charge as a toe. The Association of Polish Teachership demanded in-depth consultations and warned against double conducting documentation during the piloting period, and the educational “Solidarity” on August 17 explicitly appealed to the president for veto, demanding, among another things, restrictions on the scope of data processed and voluntary participation of schools.
It is worth remembering how this bill passed through parliament. At its 3rd reading on 31 July, 251 Members voted for it, 24 against, and 168 abstentions. The only club consistently opposed was the Confederate, most PiS MPs abstained, the legislature passed the bill without amendment. Veto is so not an extension of parliamentary war, but a reaction to a bill that passed through the Sejm almost without resistance.
Minister Barbara Nowacka called the decision a "lobbyist veto", and Deputy Minister Catherine Lubnauer estimated that it had a very circumstantial price and would be paid by parents and children. The problem is that the veto was besides supported by Marcin Józefaciuk, an unattached MP elected from the letter of the Civic Coalition and an active teacher who himself declared that he had asked the president to veto the bill. His allegations primarily afraid the unfinished system, the pace of tests on real students' data and costs. Is he a lobbyist too?
After the veto, the president added what was missing in the Communication, “I am not against the Journal”, “The full strategy is badly prepared”, “Improve this law, send it and then I will sign it”. He opposed first of all that children, parents and teachers should be testers of an unsolvable solution, and recalled the Act on the Protection of Animals, which he first vetoed in 2025 and signed after the amendments.
The conditions set by the government are very modest: "consultations with teachers and experts, real protection of children's data and reasonable and transparent costs". It's hard to get a little revolutionary list. If gathering these 3 conditions is besides advanced a price for the Ministry of Education, then the problem is not veto.
Instead of closing the case 2 weeks ago, we are building another perfect collection — this time with PESEL numbers and pictures of Polish children. At least the Ptolemy had a clear goal, and they did not hide it: they wanted to have everything in their possession that mankind had written down. Our collection has a unclear, clear cost and even clearer risk. There is only 1 difference, but it is essential. erstwhile scrolls burned in the Alexandrian harbor, smoke was seen by all. The data is carried out quietly, and the copy does not leave ash — it is only erstwhile individual graciously informs us of the loss. Or 2 weeks later, erstwhile “the degree of the incident” continues.
Manaster Love
Who's the Manaster Love?
Manaster Love — writer and journalist. He writes about Central Europe, demography, household politics, religion, public institutions and the political economy of European societies. president Information Agency, independent Polish press agency, and permanent commentator TelevisionRepublica. In 2018-2023, a socio-political commentator of Polish tv and Polish Radio. In his work, he analyses how demographic change, family, religion and institutions find Europe’s long-term future — with peculiar attention to the experience of Central and east Europe. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polish Revival for outstanding merits for culture and public service. Awarded a medal in the UN economical and Social Council (ECOSOC) for working on social policy.
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