You have to ask why??
It also remains unclear why Ecuador's government would entrust personal data for its entire population to a consultant working from a home office. It's the gig economy gone mad.
And why not? How many times does someone visit another's office these days? Back in the early 1990s, the CEO of the OEM where I worked went to Nevada to visit the "office" of a consulting company. Turns out, it was the guy's home, and at 9am the fellow was still in his bath robe and had just gotten out of the shower.
So I can see that the fellow in question had been visiting the government offices while wearing a suit, and had probably been handed the initial data set on a USB stick. Then he set up services, etc., and by the time anyone realized that there's no normal office, they just shrugged and went with it.
And really, does the lease of a "normal" office preclude spaffing unprotected data to world + dog?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
