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Seems likely that the IT failure affecting the Treaty Principles Bill submission process yesterday was caused by the government's use of foreign corporate proprietary technology, namely Google's 'reCAPTCHA' service. They were using the 'free' version which features a limit on the number of uses per day. It seems likely that limit was (unexpectedly from the public service's perspective) hit, blocking further submissions. We need better gov't tech decision makers.