impression was that IT leaders at different levels, and not least IT security leaders in Denmark, have found it unusually difficult to get budgets allowing measures controlling whether contractors live up to companies' own security policies and expectations". As an example, the Danish Data Protection Agency confirmed that in two cases they experienced councils not knowing where citizens' personal data was after outsourcing to private IT companies. Journalist Dorte Toft called for a more active role for the Data Protection Agency and hoped that a new EU directive on data protection would come into force. Surveillance debate The Danish activist Peter Kofod, writing on the Danish blogging platform DenFri in a post titled "En dybfølt tak til Se & Hør" (English: "A heartfelt thanks to Se & Hør"), commented that while Edward Snowden's NSA leaks provoked a subdued response amongst the Danish media, politicians, and "gossiping class", the Se og Hør case shifted media focus to surveillance and caused a number of influential people to recognise this surveillance as a problem. Kofod's opinion was reflected in an editorial by Informations editor-in-chief Christian Jensen, who called the contrast in reactions "surveilllance hypocrisy". Berlingske journalist Mads Kastrup wrote: and noted that the use of the hush-hush source by Se og Hør was exactly such a story. A week after the scandal broke, Edward Snowden wrote a piece for Berlingske that remarked "[t]he Se & Hør allegations are a reminder that until the Folketing takes action to get to the bottom of the mass surveillance problem, our rights are risk". Altinget.dks editor-in-chief Rasmus Nielsen wrote that "the Nets scandal is unfortunately just another step in the weakening of the citizen compared to the state, search egines, data harvesting and so on". He gave another example of public workers' access to the CPR database. The revelations about the hush-hush source appeared the same weekend that Berlingske began a series of articles on surveillance under the title "Sporet" (English: "The trail"). As a way of encouraging debate about data registration and logging, the minister Sofie Carsten Nielsen and the Folketing member Jens Joel agreed to allow the newspaper to harvest their personal data. The paper managed to obtain 2,047 Dankort transactions, 18,047 emails, 313,303 telephonic data (including SMSs and phone logs), flight bookings, tax information, and private pictures. Berlingskes access, however, appears to have been far more wide-ranging than that used by the hush-hush source.