Another State-owned Entity has Undermined Privacy in Ethiopia

The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia violated customers’ private data when it published hundreds of names and photographs of customers in bid to recover lost funds from an ATM network glitch incident. International digital rights group Access Now and Ethiopia’s Centre for Advancement of Rights and Democracy both slammed the bank’s name-and-shame strategy to recoup $14 million lost during a system glitch that allowed customers to withdraw unauthorized funds back in March. Following the sharp criticism earlier this week, the bank on Friday took down the names of customers from its various platforms saying it had recovered just over 99% of the “illegally withdrawn money.”

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