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Children’s Personal Data Held Hostage After Nursery Chain Hack
When innocence collides with cyber extortion
Devona Green Jordan
September 26, 2025
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Interesting Tech Fact:
In 1973, long before today’s debates over personal identifiable information, Sweden became the first country to establish a centralized national database of citizens’ personal data, known as the Data Act Registry. What many don’t know is that this pioneering move also triggered the world’s very first data privacy law, the Swedish Data Act of 1973, created to regulate how PII could be stored and used. This little-known milestone marked the beginning of legal recognition that digital records of individuals—names, addresses, financial details—could be as sensitive and powerful as physical documents, setting the stage for modern privacy protections decades before the rise of the internet.
