Data risk of the government’s Diia app is mitigated by the fact that the increasingly popular ‘government-in-a-smartphone’ app does not store data, but only displays encrypted information from other government registries,

, Ian Bateson writes on Rest of the World site about Ukraine’s effort to cut government paperwork. “Diia has also passed two penetration tests, organized with the assistance of the Estonian e-Governance Academy and the American aid agency USAID, which simulated a cyberattack on the system,” he writes. “In December 2020, USAID funded a competition to test the security of Diia with a $34,500 prize for discovering critical vulnerabilities, the embassy said. None were found.”