Yesterday evening, the news was posted that 150,000 CVs – with DOB, email address, postal address, phone number and all – were illegally viewed and possibly downloaded from the system werk.nl in which people on benefits are required to post their CVs in the Netherlands.

(DOB? Yes. Age discrimination has been illegal in the Netherlands for a long time, but DOBs are still routinely requested in job applications and online CV forms usually force you to enter your DOB.)

It’s happened before. In 2019, 117,000 CVs were downloaded illegally.

Datalek bij UWV: 150.000 cv’s ingezien en mogelijk gedownload (nos.nl)