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Then they are incompetent.
We have to send files to other ppl password protected or we are at risk of breaking laws regarding privacy.
That means there are always two emails: one with the file, one with the password.
It's really not hard.
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@gt12 said in NZ Politics:
Then they are incompetent.
We have to send files to other ppl password protected or we are at risk of breaking laws regarding privacy.
That means there are always two emails: one with the file, one with the password.
It's really not hard.
I guess it's like airlines still using black boxes instead of real time tech. No excuses for it apart from not wanting to spend the money
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@Godder said in NZ Politics:
If not putting a password on an Excel file is incompetent, then every government and department since Office was rolled out in the Public Service is incompetent because it happens everywhere, it just doesn't normally involve being emailed outside those who need to know.
... or contain personal medical information about people. Privacy laws are there for a reason. We have to jump through hoops when dealing with confidential information that isn't nearly as sensitive
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There are modules, training and more modules including refresher modules. There is privacy incident reporting even for near misses. Public servants get sacked for breaches and poor performance and I've seen both happen.
None of that makes people do it or anyone noticing until there is an incident. Passwords are supposed to be used, but that doesn't make people do it, or make decent passwords.
However, it's ever less clear about how Boag got the info, because it may have been a leak who ran a report and sent that as a spreadsheet. Edit: new story says apparently she got it as a daily report.
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I'm still shaking my head over the utter stupidity of Boag passing along info then Walker leaking it. There's no public interest here. On multiple previous occasions when there have been privacy breaches, NZers get super pissy. This was never going to be a win.
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When Walker gave his maiden speech in parliament he specifically mentioned Boag as his mentor.
I reckon she sent it to him because it supported his contention that he wasn't being racist last week merely accurately summarising that most of the returnees are coming from COVID hot spots.
So charitably: out of a blinkered loyalty to her little protégé she was a dumb fuck.
She says she never thought he'd leak it. What did he think he was going to do with it. He'd already been censured by the party for his comments which should have been cleared by the media team before he released them so he is / was clearly a loose cannon.
Boag should have known better - so either you buy into the wider conspiracy theories or accept that she had a massive brain fart.
Either way she had a lot of cushy little media and board gigs which presumably are toast now.
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
I guess it's like airlines still using black boxes instead of real time tech. No excuses for it apart from not wanting to spend the money
They should be using both - they can serve different purposes but your point stands - the ability is there so it should be used. In this case it would appear to be lazy or incompetent, rather than expense.
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@Snowy said in NZ Politics:
@canefan said in NZ Politics:
I guess it's like airlines still using black boxes instead of real time tech. No excuses for it apart from not wanting to spend the money
They should be using both - they can serve different purposes but your point stands - the ability is there so it should be used. In this case it would appear to be lazy or incompetent, rather than expense.
I suppose they would need to pay someone to install the required IT systems to safely transfer information? Either way there are no reasonable excuses. Especially considering the supposed level of privacy that we experience in our work when dealing with ACC for example
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MoH has decent systems, but health has become so fragmented that they have no way of centralising using it effectively, and even if they had an externally accessible system with password controls, people would leak stuff.
I mean, why the fuck is the rescue helicopter a charity instead of part of the MoH or the DHB?
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@Godder and why do we have 20-odd DHB in a country of 5 million with centralised funding?
Someone thought democracy was warranted, but it doesn't work for those because if an elected board member makes trouble, they get gagged.
Luckily, H2 gave us a way forward.
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@Godder I know, right. It's like competition in our electricity market, just a bit unusual. Streamlining really important.
I'm not one for centralising stuff, but markets your can't opt out of are a bit weird to me. Water, electricity, health...
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@Godder I know, right. It's like competition in our electricity market, just a bit unusual. Streamlining really important.
I'm not one for centralising stuff, but markets your can't opt out of are a bit weird to me. Water, electricity, health...
Competition means scrimping on stuff like infrastructure improvement
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
@Godder Don’t get me started. WTF is the deal with ambulance services in general? Is there a clearer example of an essential service?
That’s never made sense to me, why are they required (ST Johns) to find raise just to keep themselves going? The other day they were talking about laying off staff because they are way down on $$$ due to covid. The lockdown etc meant their usual fund raising events couldn’t take place.
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@Crucial She keeps digging herself a deeper hole. And now that Woodhouse has come out and said he got emails as well, in JUNE, it just makes it worse.
All National had to do was not be numpties, and let the screw ups for lockdown take their course. But nooooooooo.
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