30 July 2024
45 Pipitea Street, Thorndon, Wel ington 6011
PO Box 805, Wel ington 6140
Phone +64 4 495 7200
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Email [email address]
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Website www.dia.govt.nz
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Tēnā koe Joe
Your Official Information Act request, reference OIA2425-0006
I am responding to your email of 2 July 2024 to Te Tari Taiwhenua | Department of Internal
Affairs (the Department) requesting the fol owing information under the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act):
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 fol owing 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.
On 16 July 2024, the Department contacted you to advise that it was our preliminary view
that we did not hold any information within scope of your request, and that we were
proposing to refuse your request under section 18(e) of the Act, as the information
requested does not exist.
