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Friday, 11 October 2024
Not a great start
Government apologises for accidentally leaking email address of one of world’s richest men
The government has apologised for accidentally leaking the email address of one of the world’s richest men in the lead-up to a major summit hosted by Britain.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has referred itself to the data protection watchdog and apologised for the “human error” after officials sent around a message about the global investment summit next week.
The email displayed the contact details of fashion mogul Bernard Arnault and other business leaders.
So the world's richest man hasn't been invited to the International Investment Summit and the world's third richest man has his email address inadvertently leaked.
Not a great start.
I wonder whether there will be greater status in going or in publicly rejecting the invitation and sending a second stringer. Or even sending no one.
ReplyDelete"The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has referred itself to the data protection watchdog "
ReplyDeleteAs Flanders and Swann sang, It all makes work for the working man to do. Or, as per the old saying, there's no point in having a watchdog and doing the barking yourself.
If the government can't management email lists how are they going to cope with the complexities of the economy and net zero?
ReplyDeletedearieme - that could be why they didn't invite Musk, he might have sent his valet.
ReplyDeleteSam - yes, very much like taking in each other's washing
DJ - or HS2 or immigration or...