NSW Information Commissioner sends email to wrong list The Information Commissioner in the Australian state of New South Wales, an officer whose job it is to offer and enforce best information management practice for the State, has apologised after sending an email to the wrong list. The email in question advised of a conference at which the Commissioner, Deirdre O’Donnell, is due …
The vacuum attachment sounds like it would make a great GUI which would be most satisfying to watch (and to some fools, convincing). However I do think that Captain Tick Tock got it right. They will probably ask for the e-mails back so they can delete them. After all, you don't get to be The Information Commissioner without having the skills to solve these kinds of problems.
There exist email systems with an 'undo' facility, sadly they only really work on purely internal systems (e.g. if everyone's on the same Exchange server). Of course, they can't prevent anyone from reading the email before the recall order has been sent, for that you need to borrow a neuralyser from MiB.
And for those calling 'numpties' - hands up all those email users who have never inadvertently selected the wrong address (group). No-one? I suspect the first misaddressed computer message occurred shortly after the third node was added to ARPAnet.
The mail was sent to undisclosed recipients. It seems unlikely that there was confidential content in an e-mail to their practitioners network, so I think the effort "to have the data retrieved and destroyed" is referring the list of recipients itself, and the only cleanup required (except the apology for a bit of time wasted) is the department that received the wrong list needs to erase their copy. It was a little mistake with no leaked personal information.
Is there an icon for "Move along. Nothing to see here." ?
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