Source code for Cybersafety Help Button software
Dear Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy,
Documents released under FOI in late 2012 indicate that DBCDE contracted out development of "Cybersafety Help Button" applications for various platforms to third party software developers.
I request disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of source code delivered to the Commonwealth pursuant to relevant software development agreements.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Newton
Dear Mr Newton
Your reference: 44-a8c2ac83
Our reference: Freedom of Information Request No. FOI 26-1213
I refer to your correspondence received by the Department on 17 January
2013 requesting access under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI
Act). Your request states:
‘Documents released under FOI in late 2012 indicate that DBCDE contracted
out development of "Cybersafety Help Button" applications for various
platforms to third party software developers.
I request disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of source code
delivered to the Commonwealth pursuant to relevant software development
agreement.’
The statutory period for processing your request is 30 days, which
commences from the date it was received.
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Yours sincerely
FOI Officer
Client Engagement & FOI | Governance Branch
Phone +61 2 6271 1741
[2]www.dbcde.gov.au
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 3, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601
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Dear Mr Newton
Please find attached, correspondence relating to your recent FOI request
with the Department.
Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
FOI Officer
Client Engagement & FOI | Governance Branch
Phone +61 2 6271 1741
[1]www.dbcde.gov.au
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 3, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601
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Dear Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy's handling of my FOI request 'Source code for Cybersafety Help Button software'.
I have difficulty believing that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy spent several hundred thousand dollars developing these help button applications, and, upon completion, didn't even receive source code deliverables.
Either the source code exists somewhere where the Department has not looked, or the Department has simply lost several hundred thousand dollars worth of taxpayer-funded intellectual property.
Can you please review and investigate?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/so...
Yours faithfully,
Mark Newton
Paul Wayper left an annotation ()
I would also be interested in any information regarding the review process to find out if this software a) did what the department required it to do, b) didn't do anything insecure, and c) didn't leak data to third parties. A source code review would be the obvious way to find out what the code was doing, but alternately any testing information or procedures would be useful.
Dear Mr Newton
I refer to your email of 18 February 2013 requesting an internal review of
the Department’s access decision on Freedom of Information request No.
26-1213.
The statutory period for processing your request is 30 days, which
commenced from the date the request was received.
Please contact the FOI team if you have any queries related to this
matter.
Yours sincerely
FOI Officer
Client Engagement & FOI | Governance Branch
Phone +61 2 6271 1741
[1]www.dbcde.gov.au
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 3, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601
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To: [1][FOI #44 email]
Dear Mr Newton
Please find attached, correspondence relating to your request for internal
review of the decision on access for FOI 26-1213.
Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
FOI Officer
Client Engagement & FOI| Governance Branch
Phone +61 2 6271 1741
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 3, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601
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Henare Degan left an annotation ()
Mentioned in this article: "Just When You Thought The Government’s Cybersafety Button Project Couldn’t Get Dumber…"
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/02/just-w...