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You don't have to micro-manage. But if someone deletes important data at work, it's the CIO of that region who gets a balling (or gets sacked) because the controls that are setup and managed by that CIO are clearly failing.When some person deletes stuff that they have access to is not the fault of the Government. Micro management is not a thing.
It shoud be impossible to delete important data because the control environment that's setup - and driven from the top of any competent organisation - should prevent an employee from doing that, at least unrecoverably.
Yes, mistakes are made and controls are improved in response to those mistakes. But ultimate responsibility doesn't lie with the employee who made a mistake - it lies with the senior management who failed to ensure that the controls - the hoops that employees have to jump through, if you like - aren't fit for purpose.
As long as things aren't being conducted in a fraudulent or criminal manner (and if they are, that is also a failure of the control environment) - the buck, always, stops at the very top.