Monthly Archives: July 2020

DPA: last one… for a while Hello friend, Day 25… I had thought that I was done with this one. Since my last blog (see 2020 – 10) the MoJ refused to pay my costs – something you are entitled to when you accept a ‘Part 36′ offer – which, as a litigant in person
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DPA medical: the last bastion of confidentiality Hello friend, Day 24… Case 5: I recently made a SAR to the hospital where the obstructive cardiologist works (see 2020 – 30 and other previous ‘heart’ blogs) to obtain my medical records. When I received them, the package had already been opened by the prison. Medical data
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2020 – 38 – dpa letter DPA Letter:…into the void… Hello friend, Day 23… Case 4: My 2020 – 26 blog touched on this DPA breach. In most respects, this is the most serious. When they stopped the Cotton Trader’s catalogue they also stopped a letter from my mother. That letter subsequently disappeared never to
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DPA Subject Access Requests Hello friend, Day 22… Case 3: Connected to my asthma attack case, I made a SAR last year for a copy of the Control Room’s calls to and from staff. How many calls had been made? I certainly didn’t know. My understanding was that Healthcare received a ‘Hotel 5 call’ from
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DPA Subject Access Requests Hello friend, Day 21… Case 2: When I made a Subject Access Request (sar) for all the mercury Intelligence reports, including Nurse X’s IR (predictably) I was met with a total refusal. I complained . To appease me the MoJ sent a couple of redacted summaries. I complained again. They disclosed
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DPA s.47: here we go again… Hello friend, Day 20 Over the past few months, this prison has breached Data Protection legislation on 3 separate occasions; plus the MoJ’s Data Access and Compliance Unit on 2 other occasions; I’m starting to combine them all into a mega – DPA civil case. Blogs 2019 – 40
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2020 – 34 – coronavirus Coronavirus: time to ‘reset’ Hello friend, Day 19… Well, that was all the health stuff – time for my ‘ever friendly ‘update’… There’s not much to say. The prison is still clear of the virus; however, as people can be contagious a few days before displaying symptoms, it is entirely
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Healthcare: sticks and stones… Hello friend, Day 18… … Once I got over the sheer nastiness of Nurse X’s medical file entries – all that anger and vitriol being spat out onto my medical file – I started to collect my thoughts. I have to admit, it took a few days for the stress to
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