The Hokorian State has excellent data protection law and regulation, based on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In fact, it was one major incident in Hokoria’s early days of 2022 that opened the government’s eyes to the importance of keeping citizen data safe and maintaining the public’s confidence in data security.

It started with a form

Back in 2022, Hokoria (then Aweland) used Google Forms for its citizenship application. The free service is commonly used in the community and is a simple way of collecting data of all kinds.

For the Aweland Central Government, it was a simple and easy service to use. Or so they thought…

It was on one day that the Koru made a minor change to the form. That change resulted in every response being showed once somebody submitted the form.

The mistake was catastrophic, every citizen’s information being visible to everyone. It took officials around a day or two to notice before it was fixed and the public notified. The damage was thankfully minimal, with the public accepting the ACG’s explanation and apology. Just two of the 30 citizens at the time renounced their citizenships.

A lesson learnt

The lesson was learnt and since that incident, there have been no instances of citizen data being leaked. Data protection has been an important responsibility of Willow I, who has safeguarded citizen data since Hokoria’s founding in 2022.

Only three of Hokoria’s most trusted officials have ever had full access to the government’s full registry: Willow I, Sakura I and Christopher Slant.

The government adheres to strict data protection policies when it comes to citizen data.