FYI: Revenue use facebook profile for information

hjrdee said:
Surely having a national database of fingerprints, DNA, etc kept securely under rigorous controls would prove beneficial in helping the police on a number of matters, e.g. theft, murder, rape, etc. The key would be to ensure that it is controlled properly. Remember that anybody convicted of a criminal offence has their fingerprints kept on file long after their sentence is over and nobody cries civil liberties about that. Surely this would be the same.
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Not exactly the same is it? I would be totally against a national database of every citizen
 
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If you obtain peronal information for a particular purpose, you may not use the data for any other purpose, and you may not divulge the personal data to a third party, except in ways that are "compatible" with the specified purpose. A key test of compatibility is whether you use and disclose the data in a way in which those who supplied the information would expect it to be used and disclosed.
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The data in question was provided for the purpose of networking. I would not expect the revenue to use this information.
 
leghorn said:
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The data in question was provided for the purpose of networking. I would not expect the revenue to use this information.
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But its public information once you post it on the internet. Its not as if Bebo and facebook are handing it over. If I confessed to killing 10 people on Facebook to network with other serial killers, I don't think I could claim the confession was inadmissable in court due to data protection laws
 
Sunny said:
Not exactly the same is it? I would be totally against a national database of every citizen
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On what grounds specifically?? The earlier poster made a good point in relation to the cases in England...look what having a DNA database did in that instance, although again this was only a criminal database, but had they not had fingerprints taken at an earlier case then they may have slipped throught the net...

We can't have it every way.
 
leghorn said:
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The data in question was provided for the purpose of networking. I would not expect the revenue to use this information.
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Tough. Its on the internet, its public domain, anyone can read it. Employers are already looking up potential recruits before they hire them. Don't like it? Well don't post personal information on the internet then.
 
The data in question was provided for the purpose of networking. I would not expect the revenue to use this information.
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Information published on these websites is in the public domain regardless of the purpose of the website. Therefore Data Protection does not apply as Data Protection is for confidential personal information held in confidential databases.

If someone is using these sites to advertise their services for nixers or boast about income earned illegally, then Revenue are well within their rights to investigate and should be commended for their initiative.
 
The data in question was provided for the purpose of networking. I would not expect the revenue to use this information.
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Making this argument is equivalent to saying that Revenue cannot investigate businesses who advertise their services in "trade only" magazines because the purpose of the magazine is to be read by the trade only not by Revenue. :)
 
shanegl said:
Tough. Its on the internet, its public domain, anyone can read it. Employers are already looking up potential recruits before they hire them. Don't like it? Well don't post personal information on the internet then.
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Very sensible post - I can only add, if you are dumb enough to post personal information on the internet that could get you into trouble (like revenue fraud) then it serves you right if you get caught.
 
As was said earlier, the SBP article indicated that Revenue were looking up such social networking sites on cases selected for audit. They did not say that the search of a social networking site let itself to an audit. I know of a recent Revenue audit case where the Revenue auditor referred to the taxpayer firm's website and something which it said on the website about the number of business outlets. That information was in the public domain and neither the firm nor their accountants had any difficulty with the Revenue auditor having looked at it before the audit. Revenue are merely adapting to changing technologies. Why wouldn't they.
 
I presume they can only see profiles that are not private! Most people i know have their profiles on "friends only" mode! If the revenue have access, whats the point in having a privacy setting then!
 
John Rambo said:
Last week in the UK two men were jailed for life. One brutally murdered five women, the other murdered a woman and then had sex with her dead body. Both were caught because they had had DNA samples taken after committing far less serious offenses (fighting/trespassing) I have absolutely no issue with giving a DNA sample to anyone or having to carry an ID card. What about the cvil liberties of those of us who don't commit terrible crimes, or to get back to the topic in hand those of us who pay our taxes and subsidise tax cheats? I'd have no issue with anyone from Revenue looking at my Facebook or Bebo pages because I've nothing to hide. They'll see pictures of me on holidays, all paid for out of my net pay. They'll see me out socialising spending money from my net pay. If you've nothing to hide, don't be worried.
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Glad to see you have such trust in DNA technology, and in the people (civil servants) who would control this information.
 
In reality this is no different to in previous generations when the local tax inspector would take down details from small adds posted on those notice boards they had in supermarkets.
 
csirl said:
In reality this is no different to in previous generations when the local tax inspector would take down details from small adds posted on those notice boards they had in supermarkets.
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Or all those mobile numbers in car sales ads in free papers similar. Any numbers which come up frequently are either trading or having very bad luck with their cars. If the information is freely available to anyone, then one must assume that some government authority is looking at it as well as potential customers.
 
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