GUEST POST: A MESSAGE FOR LABOUR’S CHRIS CARDONA, MARC SANT, AND CLIFTON GALEA
Chris Cardona
I never gave any of you my personal phone number, much less authorised its use for your self-promotion.
I do not need or want to be told where and when you are appearing on TV. I do not wish to know that you are promoting yourselves using an abbundanza ta’ ikel, inbid u luminata u hafna premijiet sbieh li jistghu jintrebhu.
I am not interested in listening to Mary Spiteri’s spettaklu live, and much less to Renato’s whose boring rendition of his 1972 Eurovision song entry disrupted each and every summer night throughout my childhood and teenage years.
I have no interest in tombola and am rather too old to join you in a bouncy castle, however charismatic and entertaining you may be.
The lawyers among you know that retaining my details and sending unsolicited messages is against the law, but that wasn’t enough to stop you breaking that law over and over again.
You have sent me a stream of messages, including one that identifies where I live, which means you are storing data about me without my authorisation.
That too, is against the law and you know it, but that didn’t stop you, either.
At first I thought the messages had been sent by mistake, especially because Chris Cardona first denied having sent any messages to me (“ma nafx biha din“) when he was contacted by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner after I filed the first of several complaints.
I now know that all the messages I have received have, indeed, been sent on your behalf and with your full knowledge. I have reported each and every one of them to the Information and Data Protection Commissioner and will do the same with any new messages you send.
On the other hand, I have read each and every leaflet, pamphlet, flyer and brochure you have pushed through my door.
You promise to deliver many wonderful things, like being allowed to enjoy my rights. Thank you, but I already do that, no thanks to all your party leaders’ best and worst efforts.
You say you will allow me to work ‘minghajr tfixkil‘, as though that’s a promise rather than a threat.
But my favourite leaflet is the one which promises to clean up politics and offer me a bidu gdid. I opened up the next one and found pictures of all three of you alongside Joe Debono Grech: three law-breakers and a relic from the past promising to clean up politics and deliver a bidu gdid? Somehow, I don’t think so.
Corinne Vella
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Slam-Dunk!
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Maybe you visited one of Hon. Cardonas lap dancing clubs in St. Julian’s? He markets his clubs well you know.
Spot on. Good on you for reporting them.
It’s interesting to know from where they got the numbers. Me and my wife received SMSs from the labour candidates from the 6th district and I’m sure we never gave our numbers to anyone from the labour side and never have been members.
On the other hand I have a full life membership with the PN and received the SMSs from the Nationalist candidates, but my wife who is not a member did not receive any messages.
This shows the correctness of the Nationalist Party, whereas the Labour delve into your personal data to persecute you, and this from the opposition.
THINK WHAT THEY WILL DO IF IN GOVERNMENT.
This is really shocking, I wonder who is responsible in leaking such sensitive information.
What’s the use of having a ‘Data Protection Act’ if the Data Protection Commissioner is impotent?
There have been hundreds of complaints against repeat offenders and yet, all I read about are ‘slaps on the wrists’.
When can we see these creeps in court?
The Labour Party has been acquiring information from many different sources. I am registered to vote in Gozo but somehow, almost all leaflets I’ve received from Labour have been mailed to me directly to my Maltese address – including the leaflets which deal specifically with Gozitan matters.
I can’t think how the two addresses have been linked together by a political party. I can understand how the police could do it but not a private entity. It feels as if I’m being stalked.
You will be stalked if Joseph is in.
This being allowed to work “minghajr tfixxkil” says it all.
Any further comment about this rotten ‘moviment gdid’ is completely superfluous.
Other such culprits (targeting me directly) were Manwel Micallef, an Abdilla, a “Dr Clifton” and a Violet Bajada.
I made it very clear to them all that they were in breach of the Data Protection Act and that, as candidates (whether general eleciton or local council) for the Labour Party which will probably be in power very shortly, they should know better, “or is this a sign of things to come?”.
In one particular case – Violet Bajada’s – I was targeted with a second message after roughly a day, despite my having previously demanded that she removes my details from her mailing list.
In the case of “Dr Clifton”, the man who answered the telephone was relatively polite until he found out that I had rung up to complain, and hung up in my face the minute I told him (very politely) what I think about a candidate representing the government-in-waiting breaching the Data Protection Act so blatantly.
Think properly, all you switchers/floaters out there. Labour think nothing of breaching the Data Protection Act when they are not even in power yet. Do you think that they would think twice about trampling upon your fundamental rights?
I must clarify that I was targeted by the above Labour candidates on my mobile phone – and the number is ex-directory.
The storage of data without authorization and its usage for political purposes is what ought to be raising the hackles on the necks of everybody in Malta.
IF Joseph & Co/ LP/ MLP are elected to power they will retain whatever they’ve stored and automatically have more data at their disposition to use as they wish, whether they admit to it honestly or dishonestly. – For them, what’s the difference anyway?
For some niggling reason, I am unable to trust that THAT MLP party in power, again, will not use this information and anything they can hack off our information systems to their advantage.
I have already seen other things happening and believe that their networks have already flexed their limbs and respective muscles to seek out information on certain individuals over the past 4 years, seeking out information from their informers; getting Malta Post to operate with certain “operational errors,” rounding up their networks to act according to set timed strategy.
As you state Corinne, I believe that our security has already been compromised.
I remain convinced, seeing right through their transparent strategy of deceit and new-truthing, that the only way they can make up for their lack of vision, zero principles, intelligence gaps and continuously erroneous political direction for the country to produce some sum of figures under the term “results”, is for them to secure further access into the daily lives and decisions of each one of us.
In the old days it was telephone conversations that one was extremely careful with – we could not only sense but hear other people on the line – but nowadays almost all our information is available on our computers. Silently and creaselessly within reach, in some crooked way or other.
Should there be a Joseph & Co./ Labour/ MLP victory, I urge people to beware of such invisible presence in operation: do not leave trackers. Be careful where and how you store your information.
The new psychological violence will resemble something entirely different. How many things will need to be clocked as “an incredible coincidence” before we start realising that the incredible part to the coincidence has been meticulously planned and synchronised by people only to happy to earn their “merit” in the entirely innovative and creative spirit of the MLP seers and doers?
It is not for nothing that David Cameron signed a deal between the UK and India to target cyber crime: their stated main threat being China.
It is not for nothing that the UK is investing 640 million euro to step up cyber security over the next 4 years.
A UK report estimated that there are 18 attacks per second – therefore hacking and cyber attacks are relatively easy to put into practice. Do correct me if I’m mistaken on this point, but I believe Malta has almost nothing in place for cyber protection on this scale.
Joseph Muscat is proposing his 2nd Republic because he firmly believes that Democracy as we know it since 1987 and until today, doesn’t do the job completely. His behind-the-scenes mentor has other specific thoughts about this and also about how parliament should be run.
Add Charles Mangion to the list thanking me via SMS for my “appogg u fiducja li ghandi fih” and how though he wouldn’t look at me in the street because of my obvious leanings (yes, ghandi wicc ta’ Nzzjonalist) is ready to serve me.
My arse!