The report detail:
"The Home Office, responsible for policing and the CRB system, is not
allowed to respond to press questions during the election campaign
because of impartiality rules.
Gwent Police asked The Register to consider not publishing a story
about its serious data breach saying it would undermine public
confidence in the force, but we declined."
seemed very supportive of the Beatriz Colomina observation when
discussing Adolph Loos work [Colomina, B., 1994. Privacy and Publicity.
Modern Architecture as Mass Media. London, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 33. ]
"The silence that he prescribed is no more than the recognition of a
schizophrenia in metropolitan life: the inside has nothing to tell to
the outside because our intimate being has split from our social being.
We are divided between what we think and what we say and do."
e.g. First public sector organisation: Do not report this because it
will put us in a bad light.
Second public sector organisation: We are forbidden from
commenting on anything during the election phase.
This is not the first time such a mistake has happened, and I would
think it will not be the last. Special Branch have previously been
waiting on organisations doorsteps at dawn for them to open in order to
seize missent material and verbally give threatening legal warnings.
As a result of back up procedures and other computerized technological
system safeguards I suspect that process will no doubt have become more
complicated.
These things so frequently end up the same as the interpretation of
TLA's, looked at from only one perspective during any particular period
of time. For example RAD - Redundant Array of Disks rather than Random
Access Disk [Now more popularly known as a RAMDISK]
It would still seem that the interpretation of perspective(s)
continues to be far more important than the data.
Ian W
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