This has annoyed me for years. I had a discussion over what a fax actually is with a lawyer a few years back. My issue was that many firms had electronic fax systems that allowed them to send 'faxes' from within their email client. If I send an email/fax via this system to a company with a similar system I wanted to know how it was a different means of communication to an email. I could stick a jpeg of my signature in both, but one is legally binding.
Third this. surely for testing purposes the consultant only needs a data set that is functionally correct, rather than actually giving the live data. As long as the sensitive data is valid (right number of characters etc) that should be enough for them to be getting on with.
If they absolutely had to have the real data then they would do it via a machine provided by me with full hard drive encryption including the software they needed to do the job.
at a national level I would agree with you that the individual has little impact on anything those in power want.
However, at a local level you can have a big impact on things. At a national level you are one customer among millions at a local level you are one amongst sometimes a few hundred. It is very easy then to make yourself heard. That can be enough to set the snowball rolling that may eventually reach a national level (although it most cases it won't need to).
This whiffs very strongly of the usual government tactic here in the UK.
They will 'leak' an extreme proposal that nobody in the right mind would support and get a lot of people protesting. Then when the bill is presented the proposal will be watered down to what the government actually wanted in the first place. Protesters are happy because they were 'successful'. Government are happy because they get what they wanted.
We lose but think we win.
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This has annoyed me for years. I had a discussion over what a fax actually is with a lawyer a few years back. My issue was that many firms had electronic fax systems that allowed them to send 'faxes' from within their email client. If I send an email/fax via this system to a company with a similar system I wanted to know how it was a different means of communication to an email. I could stick a jpeg of my signature in both, but one is legally binding.
he should be thrown in jail.His description of scientology as a cult was sadly one letter out.
Third this. surely for testing purposes the consultant only needs a data set that is functionally correct, rather than actually giving the live data. As long as the sensitive data is valid (right number of characters etc) that should be enough for them to be getting on with. If they absolutely had to have the real data then they would do it via a machine provided by me with full hard drive encryption including the software they needed to do the job.
at a national level I would agree with you that the individual has little impact on anything those in power want. However, at a local level you can have a big impact on things. At a national level you are one customer among millions at a local level you are one amongst sometimes a few hundred. It is very easy then to make yourself heard. That can be enough to set the snowball rolling that may eventually reach a national level (although it most cases it won't need to).
This whiffs very strongly of the usual government tactic here in the UK. They will 'leak' an extreme proposal that nobody in the right mind would support and get a lot of people protesting. Then when the bill is presented the proposal will be watered down to what the government actually wanted in the first place. Protesters are happy because they were 'successful'. Government are happy because they get what they wanted. We lose but think we win.