Oranga Tamariki privacy breaches: Abused woman's file shared with father
Oranga Tamariki privacy breaches: Abused woman's file shared with father
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Oranga Tamariki privacy breaches: Abused woman's file shared with father
Good grief.
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Underfunding plus corruption in procurement plus poor training results in this kind of thing.
Unfortunately the current government has promised to cut funding even more, be even more corrupt and spend even less on training.
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I know it's underfunding but that first one is just movie villain levels of weird. "Sure, here's the address of the person you might have assaulted." Wth?
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This is crazy but it does seem like this is a result of an underfunded agency. Doubly so when the staff are "too busy to think about privacy".
I hope this is not used as justification to cut funding or disestablish the agency when the opposite is needed. Most of these issues have technology solutions that could be implemented with some investment.
One of their examples was probably the whisper network (warning someone about historic allegations about someone else who probably had contact with them) but some of the others have me scratching my head.
I think what happens sometimes is that over time with underfunding and undertraining you end up with an organizational culture that becomes weirdly blind to privacy issues, like how our birds evolved to not have wings.
I definitely think you're right that if your organisation doesn't make privacy an important thing then you get blind to it. I've worked at a lot of places over the years and have seen vastly different attitudes to this.
Definitely underfunded, overworked, and probably mentally clocked out.
Even if the agency was well funded and well managed, I can't imagine working there is good for your mental health.