Posts by Angela Hart
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Speaker: The elephant in Room 903, in reply to Alfie,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Mateparae initially appointed head of the security services soon after the raid, then replaced by one of John Key's schoolfriends a short time later?
yup, that sounds right
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Speaker: The elephant in Room 903, in reply to Alfie,
Was this because some top Nats were likely to be implicated?
It could be quite embarrassing given the oddly sudden (or so it seemed at the time) appointment of Sir Jerry Mateparae as Governor General.
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How did they determine current and future levels of need?
Or did they simply say, this is where we can cut costs? The funding stopped "3 or 4 years ago". Perhaps no-one noticed at the time but now there are not enough modified taxis to meet demand. Presumably there was no further monitoring of the taxi fleet.
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Another family has gone to court to try to get a fairer deal under Funded Family Care. Diane Moody looks after her adult son Shane at home. He needs constant oversight because in addition to physical problems which make him wobbly on his feet, he has the mind of a two year old in a mature body. She has been assessed for some 17 hours a week FFC for her trouble, because the MoH excludes oversight/supervision from funding under FFC, so only specific tasks like dressing, feeding can be paid for.
Her situation was mentioned on the Nation and the footage is up at http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2017/03/family-carers-fight-for-funding-goes-on.html?ref=RLrotator -
Access: Privacy and the right to consent…, in reply to ,
First, government departments are already legally capable of sharing date about you.
Some of them. But there has not previously been a significant centralised data gathering, crunching and analysis capability. There is now as part of the function of Statistics NZ. And alongside that there is an expectation that data will be fed to the monster machine. Technology is always Jekyll and Hyde, depending on how we choose to use or abuse it. There's absolutely nothing to prevent abuse by the authorities. Will they be able to resist temptation?
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Seriously Steven? My concern is that for the first time all of the data that all of the government departments hold on potentially all New Zealanders is going to one big database where it can be analysed. And it isn't anonymous.
It's all very well saying if you've done nothing wrong you've nothing to hide and all that. I've done nothing wrong but I have valid concerns about the way Big Brother might utilise what it knows about me. I haven't consented to this. I, like most New Zealanders, have provided information from time to time to IRD, the education system, etc, which was requested for sensible reasons. I am not at all confident that the data will be used in a fair, transparent and sensible way by future governments. We have no checks and balances on our Government, it can do whatever it likes as long as it has a simple majority in Parliament. -
Breaking news, the authorities are going to do something- in about 6 months.......
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11823161 -
We are spending about a million dollars a year to keep Ashley Peacock confined
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11822937
surely this sort of money could provide a much better situation for him -
so now not only do the NGO's have to provide our data to government agencies, they also have to be okay with it going through a third party. When's that privacy report coming out? It's hard to see how this is going to be secure- I don't want a bar of it. Big Brother is watching you, forget about nanny state.
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The MoH has just posted the review commissioned for DSS on Disability Information and Advisory Services and Needs Assessment and Service Co-ordination Agencies which was completed last year.