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martinmcmahon

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23 Nov

Can't sleep, damn insomnia. Thoughts running so I'll share. Tomorrow marks 17 days since the DPC told me that my complaint about the PSC travel pass being used as a tool of mass surveillance, was valid.

It's 2 weeks since I emailed the DPC and said I didn't want it included in

with the current DPC case re the PSC as it had nothing to do with it. A travel pass is one of those functions which the Social Welfare is allowed use the PSC.

The 2 weeks is important because that's the time limit to act once the complaint is deemed valid, there's a precedent

somewhere.

Anywho, I'm mulling over the individual number of data protection/GDPR breaches involved. So, you have a travel pass and you get on public transport. The PSC travel pass is supplied by dept SW. It has your name, a biometric photo and on the magnetic strip is a

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@williamhboney1

23 Nov

I just finished writing a piece about Revenue in the PAC about bogus self-employment last week and it got me thinking. I've been talking to whistleblowers recently, top notch people, all of them have been through 'processes'

I see patterns. 'Newbies' and I don't mean that in

a bad way, Newbies at this level have done a lot very quickly, they tend to 'spill' when the meet somebody who is genuinely interested. They try and get as much out as possible as quickly as possible. I know, I was there myself.

Then there are the 'Seasoned', at it a long

time. Focused, detailed, they listen and wait until they see a part of their extensive story, and it is extensive when you've been at it long enough, which fits into what the listener is really interested in. These whistleblowers have seen so many false dawns that they keep

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@williamhboney1

14 Aug

https://twitter.com/williamhboney1/status/1293998988304306176

For those concerned about bogus self employment, I'm going to do a little thread on the tweet below.

The former Minister accepts and concedes that there is no legislation which allows the dept. to make insurability of employment decisions on groups and classes of workers. >

https://twitter.com/williamhboney1/status/1293998988304306176

Ireland has no legislation which allows class actions such as the labeling of workers as self employed by group or by class.

Amazingly, the Minister also accepts and concedes that despite no legislation to allow such class actions, the Department does label groups and >

classes of workers as self-employed. This is wholly unlawful.

The Minister claims that this unlawful labeling is done with the consent of the employer and the workers. Again this is entirely untrue.

The department is not labeling workers for a single employer as self-employed >

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martinmcmahon

@williamhboney1

20 Jan

I had just turned 19 and finished a 1 year secretarial course. A job was more important than anything else, any job. I sent out 300 CVs and got no replies. I took the boat to Wales and the train to London where a friend of a friend I'd never met took me to her home in Kent.

The

next day I went to an employment agency and had a job in 3 hours as a medical conference organiser.

Charles Haughey was Taoiseach.

Less than 6 months later, my sister, a year older, quit UCD and followed me over. She never came back, I did.

Charles Haughey was Taoiseach.

A

few years later, my baby brother flew to the States. He never came back.

Charlie Haughey was still Taoiseach, his arch nemesis Albert Reynolds enabled him.

The middle brother, well he hung in there long after. Right up until Bertie Ahern & Co. ran the economy off the cliff.

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@williamhboney1

30 Dec 19

@EchoChambersPod

It's more than 2 years since myself and Tony first started the @EchoChambersPod. We hadn't a clue what we were getting ourselves into, we just knew that there were great people out there who never got a look-in on traditional media.

Our first pod was just me and Tony shouting at

an ipod. Thanks to crowdfunding we upped our game, got decent mics and other bits and pieces we needed to improve our quality.

As we improved, we grew into the #tortoiseshack, with other great podcasts from Ruth, Rachel and Rory.

Podcasting has helped me so much, due to my

damnable health I'd become a recluse of sorts, but getting out a few times a week and meeting all kinds of interesting people rebuilt my confidence. These days I'm still wary of crowds but nowhere near as bad as I was.

Tony and Rory slag me quite a bit about my tunnel vision on

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@williamhboney1

6 Apr 19

For 20 years I've been fighting to expose the scale and cost of #BogusSelfEmployment. For 20 years I've been battling the absolute corruption of civil servants and Ministers which robs citizens of over one billion euro every goddamned year.

2 years ago, I sat with the current

Minister for Social Welfare and explained to her in detail, not just the unlawful actions of the Social Welfare Appeals Office in creating and perpetuating this fraud, but also the prima facie criminality of individual social welfare employees in covering it up. The Minister has

done sweet fuck all since then except allow it all to continue. Indeed, she has gone out of her way to deny that there is large scale bogus self employment. I have witnessed the unlawfulness and the criminality first hand. I have dragged a Social Welfare Inspector into the

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