Again, I must protest that the official website for making Parliamentary submissions has hard dependencies on proprietary scripts served from domains owned by Goggle; google.com and gstatic.com
So a known DataFarmer has a number of potential backdoors into a system that is recording people's contact details and political views. Considering the role tech corporations are playing in the new USAmerican fascism, the wisdom of this is even more questionable.
Now it would be remiss of me not to groan about the Parliament.govt.nz website. Specifically, demanding I run JavaScript from at least 2 different Goggle-controlled domains, before I could click the 'Submit' button to send in my recommendations.
That's right. On a government website we *have* to use to make official comments on potential legislation. Two domains owned by a corporate DataFarmer. Just to make *one* button work.
There are no word.
The NZ government, and public services, need to protect themselves from recurrences of the CrowdStrike fail by following the example of EU moves towards digital independence and data sovereignty. By supporting further development of local IT infrastructure, powered by Free Code software not controlled by a handful of foreign companies.
Public money, public code.
"So here is a call from the NZOSS to the New Zealand Government to set up a Government centric Mastodon instance to provide a conduit for Agencies, Departments, Entities, Schools, Councils, DHB's and any other central or local government organisation to disseminate pertinent information in real time."
#CarlKlitscher, May 2022
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An indicator for how hard government IT is. At the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments it is our responsibility to neutrally identify risks and offer advice on improvement for such projects of the Dutch government, independent of politics at play.
- https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/21/the-vas-new-medical-records-system-has-gone-haywire-congress-is-alarmed-00107655
- https://avandeursen.com/2022/08/15/member-advisory-council-ict-assessments/
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Using this site without NoScript running loads scripts from no less than 4 third-party domains...
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