{"id":4844,"date":"2016-06-02T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T03:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T03:35:46","slug":"uncle-malcolms-office-hands-out-confidential-email-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/uncle-malcolms-office-hands-out-confidential-email-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Malcolm&#8217;s office hands out confidential email addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/81b836533143f86548244ca18fdfce2bdf30e460\/327_456_3697_2218\/3697.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=632&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=crop&amp;s=abb4920bf5ae1d995a01beeb33d3831f\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The prime minister\u2019s department has blamed an \u201cadministrative error\u201d for inadvertently distributing the email addresses of thousands of women who had registered on a \u201cconfidential\u201d government database for women seeking appointment to government boards or decision-making bodies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the office of the man whom invented the internet (Thanks for that one Tony &#8211; it&#8217;ll never get old).<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using an email distribution tool or having someone who knows how to send an email properly the PM&#8217;s office has apparently pasted in a few thousand email addresses into the &#8220;To:&#8221; field.<\/p>\n<p>I have no issues with these people having access to my meta data whatsoever. \/sarcasm<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2016\/jun\/02\/pms-department-reveals-thousands-of-womens-email-addresses-on-confidential-database\">PM&#8217;s department reveals thousands of women&#8217;s email addresses on confidential database | Australia news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prime minister\u2019s department has blamed an \u201cadministrative error\u201d for inadvertently distributing the email addresses of thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}