{"id":401,"date":"2009-03-06T07:12:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-03-06T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:17:34","slug":"company-blacklists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/06\/company-blacklists\/","title":{"rendered":"Company blacklists"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have made the point, often repeatedly, that there is little difference in distinguishing between nasty shit done by a government, and one done by a privately funded organization, especially when arguing with libertarians and anarchists.\u00c2\u00a0 A case in point emerged in the British press<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

A company that allegedly sold workers’ personal details, including union activities, to building firms is to be prosecuted by the information watchdog.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said the Consulting Association, in Droitwich, had committed a “serious breach” of the Data Protection Act.<\/em><\/p>\n

The ICO said a secret system had been run for over 15 years to enable firms to unlawfully vet job applicants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unions have called on the government to outlaw “blacklisting” practices.<\/em><\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Department for Business said it did have the power to make blacklists illegal and would “review whether to use this power if there was compelling evidence that blacklists were being used”. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s your “free market”, suckers.\u00c2\u00a0 Bastards in power are bastards in power, regardless of whether they are a Minister or a CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have made the point, often repeatedly, that there is little difference in distinguishing between nasty shit done by a government, and one done by a privately funded organization, especially when arguing with libertarians and anarchists.\u00c2\u00a0 A case in point emerged in the British press today: A company that allegedly sold workers’ personal details, including … Continue reading Company blacklists<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,21,36,52,66,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-bizness","category-conspiracy","category-law-and-disorder","category-politics","category-spooks","category-surveillance","category-tactical-polyvalence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}