There have been a slew of email gaffes in the New Zealand news recently, so many so that I haven’t posted most of them here. But here’s one that strikes me as pretty inexcusable. Celia Crosble reports:
Thousands of Queenstowners’ personal details have been exposed in an “embarrassing” major privacy breach by the district council’s regulatory organisation.
Lakes Environmental has inadvertently released, via email, the details of every single complaint it’s received over the past 10 years.
The email, containing the full complaints register, was sent by a Lakes Environmental staff member to well-known local chef Varick Neilson after he asked to be sent a complaint form.
Read more on Mountain Scene.
So what was the filename for the complaint form and what was the filename for the complete register? Did the staffer even look at the name of the attached file before hitting “SEND?”
Gah…