XPost: uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.policy   
   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 17/09/2017 14:09, Brian Reay wrote:   
   > On 17/09/17 09:36, Spike wrote:   
   >> On 17/09/2017 01:15, Paul Cummins wrote:   
   >>>  no.sp@m.com (Brian Reay) wrote:   
      
   >>>> We don't, for example, allow in perverts/troublemakers in   
      
   >>> How would you know? Do you require people to provide a DBS before entry?   
   >>> Or take references?   
      
   >> This is the concerning factor about RSGBTech. For everyone that   
   >> applies, something has to be found out about the applicant in order   
   >> for the 'vetting' processes to determine whether or not they met the   
   >> criteria of 'known' 'trouble' and 'maker' - all the terms being   
   >> publicly undefined, of course, so they can be as elastic as necessary.   
      
   >> What information is sought? From what sources? What procedures are   
   >> carried out to verify such information?   
      
   >> What is done with that information: is it stored, or communicated, for   
   >> example?   
      
   >> ISTM that the processes of collection, processing and storage of this   
   >> information could be queried for their lawfulness. 'Vetting' for   
   >> 'perverts', as the person quoted above has referred to many times, is   
   >> surely going to carry particular legal risks for the group management,   
   >> and one wonders if the RSGB, the name and logo of which are carried by   
   >> the group, are comfortable with this - or even know about it.   
      
   > Still whining Spike. No doubt you will still be whining about this in a   
   > year's time. Don't you tire of your own, silly, tirades?   
      
   You sound rattled. Go and have a nice lie down.   
      
      
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   Spike   
      
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