The Janplex Post

Her Majesty Revenue & Customs (HMRC) which is the body responsible for Inland Revenue in the UK holds vast amount of people's data including people’s name, date of birth, address, and bank details.   The HMRC gathers these data from official birth records of people born in the UK.   The government agency also collects personal details from people who have come to live, study or work in the UK or all of the above. This information database helps the HMRC to deal with issues such as benefit payments, tax credits and taxation.   In addition to using the data it holds for the purposes above the HMRC is now proposing to sell private data it collects from people to third parties.   It is hope that this sale can bring the much needed revenue to the government agency for tackling some of its pressing problems.   HMRC promises to put adequate measures in place to ensure that only reputable third parties can purchase people’s sensitive data.   ...

 Mr Richard Scudamore One of the topical issues in the British media is the sexist emails sent by the English Premier League Chief Executive Mr Richard Scudamore to his friends. Among other contents of these messages include women are “gash”, “banged skinny big-titted broads”, and the irrationality of women is questionable. The public could have not known about these messages if they had not been leaked to the media by Mr Scudamore former personal assistant, Ms Rani Abrahams. Ms Abrahams uncovered the sexist messages by Scudamore whilst accessing the Chief Executive private messages. It should be stressed however that she got this information through unauthorised access to the chief executive email correspondence with friends. This has raised a controversy whether the PA has done the right thing by leaking the messages. For strong supporters of feminism the answer is yes. Ms Abrahams had done the right thing by uncovering the sexist attitude of the top man in the Premi...

There has been a lot of publicity regarding the abuse of the sick and elderly people in care by their carers. The most recent abuse case involves the CCTV footage of carers beating their clients. This practice is not acceptable not only to the victims’ relatives but also to everyone that cares about the vulnerable ones in society. The government adviser on Health, Dr Shereen Hussein, has now come up with a radical proposal to stop this abuse of the sick and elderly people in care. Her proposal is that “recruitment agencies should ensure care workers can speak English before placing them in vulnerable people's homes”. In other words, people who are not highly proficient in English language should not look after the less abled. There is no denying the fact that communication is very important between clients and their carers within the care industry. Clients communicate their needs such as what to eat or wear to careers in English Language. The carers must understand t...

Interpol stands for International Criminal Police Organisation and was formed in 1923. We often hear about this organisation when there is an international manhunt for a person or persons suspected of committing serious crimes such as murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, or drug trafficking. Last year, for example, an Interpol arrest warrant was issued for Samantha Lewthwale, in connection with the Kenya Mall bombing. Any Interpol member country is obliged to arrest this suspect if found within their territory. We tend to hear a lot about Interpol in cases like this but who exactly are the Interpol. Many of us may have the assumption that Interpol is a force similar to the police or military. It has large stations similar to police stations or military barracks scattered across the world for dealing with criminal cases. Unfortunately none of these assumptions is true. Although the organisation has its headquarters in Lyon, France, Interpol has no separ...

The advent of internet shopping has helped overcome the difficulties associated with offline shopping.   Offline shopping involves walking or driving down to a physical store to do shopping.   This is time consuming and difficult for people working long hours a day.    It is also difficult for the elderly and less abled persons to shop offline. In contrast, internet shopping can be done anywhere and anytime.   It can be done at work during break time.   It can also be done at home late at night.   None of these involves travelling.     Thus, the time spent travelling to the physical store is saved for something else. These benefits however tend to cloud our mind from the dangers associated with internet shopping.   Some online retailers may use pictures to distort the true state of their products.   We can easily be misled to buy these items on the basis of these pictures.   We only tend to discover this distortion afte...

The recent accident involving the South Korean ship highlights the great risk faced by ship crew members. The ship carrying young students capsized very close to the South Korean sea shores. They were about 400 passengers on board the ship and more than half of these passengers are presumed dead.  So far divers have recovered over hundred bodies from the ship. The captain of the ship has been arrested and charged with offences relating to the abandonment of the ship. Four crew members were arrested today in addition to the captain. They too will face charges similar to those faced by the captain. The justification for this prosecution is that the South Korean crew members have broken the taboo governing ship operations on the sea. Sea crew members are mandated to ensure that all their passengers have been evacuated from the ship in times of ship wreck before the crew members could try to flee from the disaster scene. In other words, crew members cannot run for safety in ...

Some of us who visit the surgery for drug prescriptions tend to get upset with the doctor if we leave the surgery without such prescriptions. We expect the GP to make prescription for us to deal with our illness. We believe that the doctor knows the best about our health and any prescription we get from the doctor is in our best interest. We can hardly contemplate that doctors can make prescriptions against our interest. After hearing the allegation of prescription for money involving one of the leading British drug makers, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), you may reconsider this perception about doctor’s drug prescriptions. According to a former Polish sales representative, Jarek Wisniewiski, GSK paid some doctors to conduct lectures and promote the usefulness of certain GSK drugs to the public. The whistle blower also claimed that the company paid doctors for prescribing certain drugs over others. It is difficult to imagine whether the doctors involved in these unethical and crimi...