Read all the deleted parts

Oh dear, there will be some unhappy people.

Over on the Government’s Digital Strategy site, there is a press release about the setting up of “a new digital and community sector representative body for the benefits of all those people with information and communications technology (ICT) needs”.

Now the PR also refers to a linked cabinet paper in pdf form. It notes:

Some items in this cabinet paper has been removed because it refers to financial or other sensitive information.

Now I did read the PR because it is in an area of interest to me (and incidentally I am pretty supportive of the Government’s initiatives in this area), but didn’t read the cabinet paper at first. If you do look at it there are well over two dozen paragraphs blanked out.

But a smart wee thing has read the paper and sent an e-mail pointing out that it seems all the Government has done is change the font to white. So if you either highlight the text in your pdf reader or copy it to Word and highlight it with a dark colour, all the”deleted” text suddenly appears, and hey presto you have the full Cabinet paper.

I hope the Government applies the same censorship techniques to all its documents. The Budget papers especially would be great like this!

Hat Tip: Simon Lyall