What?
Privacy Commissioner has no record of knowledge of MSD’s use of fake social media profiles
The Privacy Commissioner has no record of knowing that the Ministry of Social Development was using fake social media profiles to spy on beneficiaries for fraud.
RNZ recently revealed that ministry staff set up the fakes to gather information through Facebook and other platforms.
It paused the practice in 2021 and is now instituting a first-ever policy that bans it.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner investigated and castigated the ministry in 2019 for collecting information about people from third parties.
…MSD and WINZ are scumbags who delight in abusing those vulnerable and weak who require their aid.
We never point this out on the Left because many on the Left are mates and friends with these staff and unions in public services meaning any criticism of their inhumanity is considered a dreadful treachery.
Well. I’m a heretic.
MSD and WINZ have used abusive means and cruel tactics against the very beneficiaries they are supposed to care for and I will always slag them off…
MSD staff banned from using fake social media profiles
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) will permanently ban staff from using fake profiles on social media sites to spy on beneficiaries in fraud investigations.
…they create these fake profiles to spy on beneficiaries so they can catch them out in a ‘relationship’ the boundaries of which MSD never explain. Once they believe you are in a. ‘relationship’ they claim benefit fraud and use that to make money off the beneficiary.
They create fake spying profiles to catch beneficiaries in bullshit ‘relationships’ so they can then accuse them of benefit fraud and start taking money off the beneficiary.
The process is to make living on welfare so difficult and hard that it drives people from welfare or traps them in debt…
Northlanders owe nearly $80m to Ministry of Social Development
Beneficiaries owe record $2.1b to Govt as cost of living soars
…this is the neoliberal welfare industry for you.
The madness is that MSD sees this debt as an asset!
They have a vested interest in loading more debt up on beneficiaries! We have loaded up billions in debt to the poorest amongst us creating debt slaves.
The state are acting like a drug dealer peddling desperation and entrapping people into literal debt coffins.
When MSD aren’t dealing in desperation loans, they are using vast mass surveillance powers to trawl through beneficiary social media accounts to catch them out in what MSD decides as ‘relationships’, and then claim beneficiaries are committing benefit fraud and then put them in debt to MSD!
461,000 Kiwis are struggling with MSD debt, this is a political decision to keep the poor in debt traps so they are compliant with the way they are treated.
Social Debt is a means of control and yet the Privacy Commissioner knew nothing about this practise?
If the Privacy Commissioner is out of the loop on this, are they aware that MSD hired private detectives to discredit beneficiaries who had been abused in State Care?
We have covered that story over and over again and seeing as the Privacy Commissioner had no idea MSD were using fake profiles to trawl beneficiary social media, are they aware of MSD hiring private investigators to undermine those abused by the State?
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