Tēnā koe,

I am writing to you in regards to your Official Information Act 1982 request made to the Department of Internal Affairs on 2 July 2024.

It is our preliminary view that the Department does not hold any information within scope of your request, and we are proposing to refuse your request under section 18(e) of the Act, as the information requested does not exist.

Section 18B of the Act specifies that a request is likely to be refused under section 18(e) or (f) of the Act, that the department must consider, before that request is refused, whether consulting with the person who made the request would assist that person to make the request in a form that would remove the reason for the refusal. Because of this, we want to give you the opportunity to respond to this preliminary view before we release our final decision.

Should you wish to amend your request, please advise by 5pm on 18 July 2024.

Ngā mihi,

Ministerial and Official Correspondence
Ministerial Monitoring and Capability
Toi Hiranga | Regulation & Policy
Te Tari Taiwhenua | The Department of Internal Affairs
45 Pipitea Street, Wellington | http://www.dia.govt.nz/

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From: Joe <[FOI #27465 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 7:01 AM
To: OIA <[DIA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Datacom assistance withe email redirection in transit

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Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

I am a NZ citizen. This is an OIA request under section 2(5) for information from Datacom, who is contracted to many NZ and AUS government agencies to provide telecommunication and cloud services.

This request covers the years from 2000 to present.

This request is for the list of all government agencies/organisations, or government owned agencies/organisations, or government funded agencies/organisations, that Datacom has provided email services. For each named entity, please state the date ranges in which Datacom was the email service provider.

For each of those agencies, I request the following for each year from 2000 to present:
(1) the number of email addresses that have been subject to email redirection at the server (that is, during transit the email is redirected from the intended recipient to some other unintended recipient), with Datacom's assistance, as a result of request of the government entity; and
(2) the number of email addresses that have been subject to email copying during transit, with Datacom's assistance, as a result of a lawfully obtained warrant issued by a NZ or AUS court; and
(3) the number of email addresses that have been subject to email copying during transit, with Datacom's assistance, without a lawfully obtained warrant issued by a NZ or AUS court, but on behest of the police or DoIA.

Please note, that we know that the answer to each of these is not zero.
(1) ACC (GOV-028030) has stated they get Datacom's assistance for email redirection under the name of a "communication plan", which is similar to Health NZ (22 March 2021), and the Horowhenua District Council (9 March 2021) referred to email redirection as "quarantining" emails.
(2) Is consistent with authority under the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.
(3) There have been NZ court cases on the illegal interception of communications by police.

Yours faithfully,

Joe

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Tēnā koe,

 

Please see attached for the response to your Official Information Act 1982
request.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Ministerial and Official Correspondence

Ministerial Monitoring and Capability

Toi Hiranga | Regulation & Policy
Te Tari Taiwhenua | The Department of Internal Affairs

45 Pipitea Street, Wellington | [1]www.dia.govt.nz

 

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-----Original Message-----OIA

From: Joe <[3][FOI #27465 email]>

Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 7:01 AM

To: OIA <[4][DIA request email]>

Subject: Official Information request - Datacom assistance withe email
redirection in transit

 

[You don't often get email from
[5][FOI #27465 email]. Learn why this is
important at [6]https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentific... ]

 

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

 

I am a NZ citizen. This is an OIA request under section 2(5) for
information from Datacom, who is contracted to many NZ and AUS government
agencies to provide telecommunication and cloud services.

 

This request covers the years from 2000 to present.

 

This request is for the list of all government agencies/organisations, or
government owned agencies/organisations, or government funded
agencies/organisations, that Datacom has provided email services. For each
named entity, please state the date ranges in which Datacom was the email
service provider.

 

For each of those agencies, I request the following for each year from
2000 to present:

(1) the number of email addresses that have been subject to email
redirection at the server (that is, during transit the email is redirected
from the intended recipient to some other unintended recipient), with
Datacom's assistance, as a result of request of the government entity; and

(2) the number of email addresses that have been subject to email copying
during transit, with Datacom's assistance, as a result of a lawfully
obtained warrant issued by a NZ or AUS court; and

(3) the number of email addresses that have been subject to email copying
during transit, with Datacom's assistance, without a lawfully obtained
warrant issued by a NZ or AUS court, but on behest of the police or DoIA.

 

Please note, that we know that the answer to each of these is not zero.

(1) ACC (GOV-028030) has stated they get Datacom's assistance for email
redirection under the name of a "communication plan", which is similar to
Health NZ (22 March 2021), and the Horowhenua District Council (9 March
2021) referred to email redirection as "quarantining" emails.

(2) Is consistent with authority under the Search and Surveillance Act
2012.

(3) There have been NZ court cases on the illegal interception of
communications by police.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Joe

 

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