The Opera in Pafos (Paphos) provokes personal data protection Tragedy

The web page of Paphos Festival, the official web site of the festival is promoting “Lakme by Leo Delibes” and on the reservation form the web has on the bottom left you they are asking to the visitor of the web to enter personal data (all of them obligatory) and the data is not protected by secure server. Among this data is the Credit Card details.

What does it mean in simple words this irresponsible and illegal action of the town hall led by Mr. Vergas. This means that you and I as consumers if we enter our data to buy a ticket for the opera our data travel without encryption and they can be stopped by any amateur hacker who will be able to use our credit card details to obtain money or goods.

I am wondering if an official website paid by the citizens of this town is acting in such an irresponsible way how do these gentlemen who run the town expect us to have any kind of respect. Their ignorance and their irresponsibility puts in danger all of us.

Please check by yourself. The web is http://www.pafc.com.cy where the Opera is announced. The link for reservation form is located down left if you click Reservation Form then the web takes you a form that is talking about “Madama Butterfly”, last years opera, they did not have the dignity to change the text on top, which means that all of those people who might booked the opera from this site last year were exposed to serious data protection irregularities. Oh by the way the link Online reservation is not working and I sincerely think it never worked.

I wonder if any official will have the dignity to apologize here on this blog, over facebook , plaxo , linkedin and all the other social media this article is published.

Last but not least the same web regognises "Macedonia" as a Country. I think the next step would be that the Townhall of Paphos should open a consulate in Skopia. See yourself the pull down of the reservation form.

I would like to congratulate once again Mr. Vergas and his fantastic team for being so capable, especially those who made the website and those who paid them. Bravo.