Never an oopsie. Always intentional. Evil by design.
The newly created Firearms Safety Authority has accidentally leaked the details of over a hundred gun owners in Auckland.
The email addresses of 147 firearms licence holders were sent to each other in error, after an email was sent with the recipients’ email addresses pasted into the carbon copy (cc) address field, rather than as a blind carbon copy (bcc).
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In group emails, addresses in the bcc field will be hidden from other recipients, whereas email address in the cc field are visible to all.
The authority’s firearms registry was just recently launched in June. It is hoped the register will prevent guns from ending up in the wrong hands by requiring gun dealers to register their sales.
By Mildred Armah