Portpass app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data

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3. Canada has a history of software problems for this and that. Check out the

Phoenix payroll system, an IBM product adopted in Canada in 2009:

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/phoenix-payroll-system-timeline-of-the-governments-problems/396407

"It was one of the biggest IT boondoggles in Canadian government history, and it’s still going. The Phoenix payroll system was part of a federal government investment in consolidating and modernizing government processes. Following a failed implementation, tens of thousands of government employees were left out of work, and the Liberal and Conservative governments were pointing the finger at each other.

It’s been a long, hard journey for Public Services and Procurement (PSPC), which set up the system with IBM Corp. and has been facing criticism ever since. Here’s how it all went down."

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