Posts by Sacha
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to ,
I don’t know if there has ever been a lot of public trauma treatment.
Never enough. One of the best things any government could invest in to improve the wellbeing of our citizens, communities and economy is free counselling and other treatment services - and I mean billions, not millions. The cost of trauma is so damn high in so many ways.
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Legal Beagle: A war crimes inquiry; or…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
considered expanding on the likely inadequacies of a police investigation, but
The police prosecution service's consistent abdication of action on many political matters in recent decades seems highly material. Wouldn't trust them to put out a fire in a rubbish bin, let alone conduct an investigation into something authority-challenging like this.
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to ,
We don’t have to collect personal data at the small not for profit organisation that I’m a part of, for a year becouse it’s all trauma related. Women’s refuge should get the same waiver.
The government wants to quieten unrest until after the election, that's all - and yes they've backed off on Refuge for the same time.
Fundamentally, this govt's interest in trauma is how much it costs the state and how the private sector can benefit from it financially. Nothing humane or ethical about it.
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Safely sharing information about sensitive matters like a person's health with other agencies relies not just on secure technology but on human ethics.
Ethics are reinforced as part of health sector training and ongoing development and governance, but not necessarily in all public sector disciplines which may have conflicting drivers. Imagine the police accessing your health records, for instance.
I have seen no sign of current government policy or practice on data-sharing addressing this.
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Newsroom article anticipates the Privacy Commissioner's ruling but concludes in any case:
The weak and powerless in our society will, of course, have no choice but to share their data and that means people are differently affected depending on their socio-economic status
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Hard News: The long road to Hit and Run, in reply to Russell Brown,
the new chief of the Defence Force is implicitly threatening to sue.
And as Idiot/Savant tweets:
by saying #HitandRunNZ harms NZ's international reputation, NZDF chief is essentially asking GCSB to spy on authors
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Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to Angela Hart,
When's that privacy report coming out?
couple of weeks more is latest I read.
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Contract granted to built the data-sharing software. At least they're locals I guess.
"From a technology perspective, we sit as an intermediary between the two.
"The NGO can say, 'We want to share this information with an agency - specifically these bits of information, and nothing else', so what we do is we pull that information out, then translate it into something that the agency can use, then push it straight into their systems."
They were "straddling an area between security and transparency", he said.
All very well. As usual, our focus needs to be on policy and contract detail, not technology.
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Yes, thank you Mark.
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Capture: Where have you been all Summer?, in reply to BenWilson,
the awesomeness of working with Nat Torkington and the Innovators gang
glad to hear that. you've certainly put in the prep work.