Comments on: Do you trust the Department for Work and Pensions with your data? http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/2009/07/22/dwp-survey-2009-distrust-dwp-with-your-details/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:12:47 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Information Commissioner: Jobcentre Plus sending sensitive information to Royal Mail is OK « New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: Flexible New Deal and Welfare Reform Bill http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/2009/07/22/dwp-survey-2009-distrust-dwp-with-your-details/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Information Commissioner: Jobcentre Plus sending sensitive information to Royal Mail is OK « New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: Flexible New Deal and Welfare Reform Bill Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:41:58 +0000 http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/?p=217#comment-423 [...] Department for Work and Pensions Data Scandal [...] [...] Department for Work and Pensions Data Scandal [...]

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]]> By: Ipswich Unemployed Action http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/2009/07/22/dwp-survey-2009-distrust-dwp-with-your-details/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Ipswich Unemployed Action Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:24:32 +0000 http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/?p=217#comment-422 It is a shame you didn't photocopy it, took a picture of it or scanned it. Would have been great to post on this site as evidence (obviously blurring some of the details) to show the breach. I have also experienced being given hand out of jobs with others names, address and N.I on. In fact, I went down to the Jobcentre today, 2 employees at the front on the desk who decides to disappear every few minutes - security at the back on the Jobcentre near where people sit ready to be called up to sign on - not at the crowded front where people were pissed off having to stand etc. and waiting for some one to see them. Staff at the closest desks were working, I would have picked up the few clipboards with peoples names, national insurance numbers, cycles etc. very casually and walked off with it. I would have obviously been seen on at least a few cameras of course, quality of which I doubt isn't good enough for evidence but the point is it could have easily happened. Also, why were 2 people employed to be on front desk serving "customers" and being customer service when ocne they have finished speaking to one person they wonder off down the other side of the building for several minutes before returning? It doesn't take a fraction of that to hand the signing on books out plus not both of the staff need to do it at the same time - thats not to mention the security guards when they are up at the front who normally do that anyway. Talking of Jobcentre and Security - why does a busy and rather "heated" Jobcentre at times (with so many people standing at the front waiting to be called) mentally pushes the security to the opposite side of the building? H&S i guess! It is a shame you didn’t photocopy it, took a picture of it or scanned it. Would have been great to post on this site as evidence (obviously blurring some of the details) to show the breach. I have also experienced being given hand out of jobs with others names, address and N.I on.

In fact, I went down to the Jobcentre today, 2 employees at the front on the desk who decides to disappear every few minutes – security at the back on the Jobcentre near where people sit ready to be called up to sign on – not at the crowded front where people were pissed off having to stand etc. and waiting for some one to see them. Staff at the closest desks were working, I would have picked up the few clipboards with peoples names, national insurance numbers, cycles etc. very casually and walked off with it. I would have obviously been seen on at least a few cameras of course, quality of which I doubt isn’t good enough for evidence but the point is it could have easily happened.

Also, why were 2 people employed to be on front desk serving “customers” and being customer service when ocne they have finished speaking to one person they wonder off down the other side of the building for several minutes before returning? It doesn’t take a fraction of that to hand the signing on books out plus not both of the staff need to do it at the same time – thats not to mention the security guards when they are up at the front who normally do that anyway.

Talking of Jobcentre and Security – why does a busy and rather “heated” Jobcentre at times (with so many people standing at the front waiting to be called) mentally pushes the security to the opposite side of the building? H&S i guess!

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]]> By: unemployedrabbit http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/2009/07/22/dwp-survey-2009-distrust-dwp-with-your-details/comment-page-1/#comment-421 unemployedrabbit Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:41:38 +0000 http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/?p=217#comment-421 When I was invited for my first meeting with my New Deal advisor, she pressed print on a new 'action plan' for me, then brought some sheets to me and told me to sign, without giving me any time to read them through. I only discovered when I got home that the papers weren't mine- they were the action plan of a postmaster general. I had been given his data, including name, address and national insurance number. As I'm an honest person, I brought it back and explained what had happened. She took them off me and never once offered an apology nor made any comment as to chasing up the missing printouts of my data. :S Scary! When I was invited for my first meeting with my New Deal advisor, she pressed print on a new ‘action plan’ for me, then brought some sheets to me and told me to sign, without giving me any time to read them through. I only discovered when I got home that the papers weren’t mine- they were the action plan of a postmaster general. I had been given his data, including name, address and national insurance number. As I’m an honest person, I brought it back and explained what had happened. She took them off me and never once offered an apology nor made any comment as to chasing up the missing printouts of my data. :S Scary!

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