Kinda like when a government program says they consulted the bar society or the privacy commissioner before going ahead with it. But if you read their reports,

Kinda like when a government program says they consulted the bar society or the privacy commissioner before going ahead with it. But if you read their reports, it’s all “no, no, no, no way!!!!!!” A lot of “consultations” are really “inform/get informed, and ignore it all and do what you were going to do all along anyway”. But you can check the box to say you did your consultations.