Oranga Tamariki privacy breaches: Abused woman's file shared with father
Oranga Tamariki privacy breaches: Abused woman's file shared with father | RNZ News
Good grief.
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.
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.
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?