Māori AI expert Te Taka Keegan says his personal information was shared with Meta by the IRD.
Last week, the government department contacted 268,000 individuals whose contact and personal information was shared with the multi-billion-dollar company for marketing purposes.
Keegan, Māori co-director of the AI Institute at Waikato University, says he was informed of the privacy breach, which occurred in February, but it has taken nine months for IRD to contact him and others affected.
“So I only just got told about it, I need just got an official letter. That’s nine months later. I would have liked to know they knew this happened nine months ago. I would have liked to know back when it happened. Maybe I could have changed some of my phone numbers, changed my email,” says Keegan.
Te Taka Keegan says IRD’s reasoning doesn’t make sense to him, and he doesn’t understand why they shared an insecure file containing his information.
