Plain text transfer of confidential documents

European institutions including hospitals and courts have been using a company called Zivver to transmit and save confidential documents and records. Investigators report finding that documents are sent to Zivver's server in plain text, and encrypted only on the server. That is fundamentally insecure and untrustworthy.

However, things have got worse. Zivver was recently sold to a US company, so now the US government can access all those documents, including before they are encrypted.

Making it even worse, the executives of that US company are associated with Israeli Intelligence. So the Israeli government can get that access too.

Europe should insist that purchasers of companies that hold European people's personal data be European companies, with no exceptions.

But this is a secondary issue compared with how bad Zivver itself did. Even before Kiteworks purchased Zivver, Zivver was offering fundamentally weak security, which no one should have accepted.

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