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Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

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No sorry you are wrong.

Mishandling of sensitive information is a serious offense and anyone, anywhere else, would potentially be looking at jail.

They certainly wouldn't have their job back after 6 days.

How can anyone in that position ever be trusted again? Once may be a mistake. Six times is on purpose.

To say she needed to see it during a teams call just shows the lack of care.

Some of us have worked in environments requiring DV and STRAP levels of clearance. Most of all of these kinds of places also have to have some kind of disclaimer manually added to the first line of the email along the lines of "I confirm that this email contains no restricted information. dd/mm/yyyy"

Any part of that missing and the email won't send.

The very fact you have to add it manually should be enough to make you stop and critically examine whether or not you are about to breach security.

Anyone can make a mistake. Once. THAT possibly requires retraining and moving on (possibly with some closer monitoring). More than that? Just nope.

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