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Email slip-up exposes Kelvin Mackenzie hijab slur complainant details

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The information commissioner has launched an investigation after the personal details of nearly 500 people who had complained about an article in the Sun were exposed by the press watchdog.

The complainants were all copied into an email from the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) informing them that their complaints would not be taken forward. Each was able to see the others’ addresses because they were placed in the “cc” field, rather than the “bcc” field. In many cases, the email addresses also revealed the complainants names.

“This is shocking, given we complained in confidence. Some of us are now receiving unpleasant messages as the email distribution list seems to have been leaked,” one of the complainants, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Guardian.

All of the people affected had complained about a Sun article in which the columnist Kelvin Mackenzie said Fatima Manji, a Muslim journalist who wears the hijab, should not have been allowed to report on the massacre in Nice because it was suspected to have been an Islamist terror attack.

The group was told that only someone directly affected by the article could make a complaint about anything other than its bare factual accuracy. They were told that, since they were neither Fatima Manji, nor acting on her behalf, their complaints could not be investigated.

Embarrassingly for the watchdog, Manji herself also received the email. Ipso later clarified that it would be investigating her complaint and has “internally addressed the issue of how we communicate with complainants by email”.

Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group said: “This is a basic error that could have negative consequences for the people who complained, and may also deter others from making complaints to Ipso in the future.”

“Organisations have a legal obligation to protect our data and they should take this responsibility seriously.”

Manji has been defended by her employer, which called the comments “offensive, completely unacceptable and, arguably, tantamount to inciting religious and even racial hatred”.

On Friday, the Information Commissioner’s Office said: “We’re aware of a potential incident and are making enquiries.”

This is so fucking stupid.

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A sparrow flew smack into the ofice window next to my desk this afternoon.  Stood, then sat stunned (the sparrow, not me) for about 20 mins before picking itself up and flying off.
Women colleagues were all for going out and somehow "rescuing" it (not sure what they were going to do apart from maybe give it a cup of tea or something) until our local Dr Doolittle advised that the bird would probably suffer a heart attack if anyone went near it.  Anyway, all worked out ok.

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4 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

SSN just now talking about a statue of Bobby Moore. The wife talking says the sculptor "immersed herself in all things Bobby"

Goin yersel... If only more were like that.

Her name wasn't Betty, was it?

Anyway, some kind of bird of prey seems to have started making passes above our house in the past week; haven't seen it, but it makes a hell of a racket and the wee birds all shit their pants whenever it passes by. Nice to hear the gulls getting it right up them considering how they normally push the others about. Mon the sparrows!

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Close.

14 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36924717

Dont really ever want to be arrested, but if I am, THIS is how I want it to go down

 

11 minutes ago, Mozzamozza said:

 

 


She looks a bit too

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For my liking.

 

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Mmm...more photographic evidence required, I think.

Worth it for the headline alone, never mind the inevitable Father Dowling remake, "Swedish Bikini Cops Investigate".

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Have to share this one with the P&B masses, because I'm still laughing since it happened on Tuesday.

At work we have those absolutely f***ing pointless team huddles/briefings every morning where they tell you how much we've sold/need to sell et cetera. We work in a large retail outlet, but despite it being pretty dead at that time of the day, there will still be 30/40 staff present to hear one of the gaffers chatting shit for five minutes.

At the end the briefing, the manager says, 'can all the male staff hang on a minute.' 

He tells us someone has reported footprints on one of the shitehouse seats in the male staff bogs. At this point I'm thinking someone's been lifting out the roof void tiles and stashing stolen stock.

Imagine the scenes when he told us that a nominated member of staff (a lanky c***) standing on the bog seat, then removing a ceiling tile followed by fishing their arm in..........they retrieved.........

A PAIR OF BOXER SHORTS WHICH SOMEONE HAD SHAT IN :lol:

The lucky recipient has been mumbling 'I'm gonna kill the c***' non-stop since Tuesday :lol:

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