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