Monday, February 23, 2015

Information Commissioner's Office Concern - Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)[Ref. RFA0568343]

In the previous blog I posted an email Declan wrote to the Information Commissioner about the fraudulent handling of his personal data by the Department for Work and Pensions. This morning we received a case reference number from the Information Commissioner's Office:

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Fraudulent handling of Declan's personal data by the Department for Work and Pensions: Still waiting to hear from the Information Commissioner's Office with a case reference number

Part 1: Heavey v Single Homeless Project: Will the Central London County Court rule we consented to declarations for online referral that we are paying our own salaries and that we are both mentally ill, and despite our photographic evidence to the contrary?

Over a month ago, on 20 January, the Information Commissioner's Office emailed Declan about the fraudulent handling of his personal data by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), stating: "We aim to send you an initial response and case reference number within 30 days." We are still waiting for that initial response and case reference number:

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This complaint against the DWP - now involving the Information Commissioner no less - has yet to be written into Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. However, this is his revised paragraph 12 concerning discriminatory surveillance:
12. It is important to underscore that the discriminatory surveillance suffered by the Applicant and his wife is not an isolated event. Rather, it is emblematic of a larger pattern of surveillance by law enforcement officials in the UK that has been well-documented by international and domestic human rights bodies. In May 2012 Liberty, one of the UK's leading civil liberties and human rights organisations, expressed concern that "state sanctioned surveillance against specific individuals takes place on a massive scale". British police and government agencies are requesting personal information about Facebook users more than almost anywhere else in the world (behind the USA and India), according to the company's Government Requests Report 2013. Since the Guardian began publishing material leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in June 2013, there have been a spate of top secret GCHQ documents reported on and published around the world. On 19 February 2014 Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald, through whom Snowden's revelations came to the world, listed some of these documents: "They include detailed reports on GCHQ's attempts to compromise basic encryption methods used to safeguard internet security, the GCHQ's role in spying on the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, the GCHQ's targeting of UN charities and officials, the GCHQ's use of 'dirty tricks' including 'honeytraps' and fake victim blog posts, the GCHQ's attacks on 'hactivists', GCHQ's surveillance of YouTube and Blogger activity and related activities to covertly influence internet discourse, GCHQ's surveillance through phone apps such as 'Angry Birds', and GCHQ's covert monitoring of visitors to the WikiLeaks website." In February 2014, the Independent reported that GCHQ's online covert actions follow the "4 D's": deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. Privacy groups have now commenced lawsuits against GCHQ for the use of malware to spy on mobile and internet users across the UK.

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Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out -- Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

If you would like to help us personally, please feel free to pick up one of our books (shameless plug, I know, but every sale helps us to work our way out of our precarious situation). There is currently five books available in Church and State Press here, and all proceeds from the first four of these books go to us with the authors' permission. Thank you all for all the support you have given us, and I hope we can keep our Church and State website going despite the constant threats.


Thursday, February 12, 2015

Amazon Kindle may not be treating us like every other publisher

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If you would like to help us personally, please feel free to pick up one of our books (shameless plug, I know, but every sale helps us to work our way out of our precarious situation). There is currently one book available here, and all proceeds from this book go to us with the author's permission. Thank you all for all the support you have given us, and I hope we can keep Church and State going despite the constant threats.


Wednesday, February 04, 2015

We are warned to be alert for possible burglary

Part 1: Heavey v Single Homeless Project: Declan gets his Central London County Court hearing date at last

Not only do we have a water leak in our bedroom since last September but scaffolding which was erected against our two-storey block of flats three weeks ago has been abandoned. There are only four flats in our block and last night one of our neighbours put a note through our door to warn us of a possible burglary threat. What's next? This is Declan's email this morning to the roofing contractor:

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Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out -- Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

If you would like to help us personally, please feel free to pick up one of our books (shameless plug, I know, but every sale helps us to work our way out of our precarious situation). There is currently one book available here, and all proceeds from this book go to us with the author's permission. Thank you all for all the support you have given us, and I hope we can keep Church and State going despite the constant threats.