Protection of data and sharing of data

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Robert Horrocks

Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Under the freedom of information act 2000 I would like to make a formal request for the following information.

Who is responsible for the CCTV recordings at your job center plus buildings?

Is facial recognition software used in conjunction or relation to the CCTV systems or recordings at your job center plus buildings?

Who can job center plus share anyone's personal information with?

How is personal information stored at job center plus?

What measures are taken to protect this information?

How does personal information get used by job center plus?

Why does job center plus refer to the people they help as "customers"?

Specifically in relation to the Brighton job center plus:

What information gets passed to "pinnacle people" (who are a training provider who work with job center plus customers) in relation to customers who are sent to them?

How much does pinnacle people get paid per customer for the customers of job center plus who attend a back to work day course?

How much money has been paid to pinnacle people from the Brighton job center plus for any services that they have provided?

Who is in charge of making a decision with regards to spending money on a training provider at Brighton job center plus?

What criteria is assessed regarding training providers to ensure that they are suitable an to ensure that the cost is justified?

Yours faithfully,

Robert Horrocks

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Dear Mr Horrocks
 
Please find attached the reply to your recent Freedom of Information
request reference number 2790, received on 18 June 2013:
 
 
Thank you
 
DWP Freedom of Information Team
 
 
 
 

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B. Adams left an annotation ()

The DWP reply is interesting they state ...”The landlord of the building, which is usually Trillium for Jobcentre Plus offices, is responsible for CCTV footage”.

In the Commons Written Answers on 3rd July.. Mr Hoban stated: … In 1998 the Department entered into a 20-year PFI contract with Telereal Trillium (TT) for the provision of fully serviced accommodation which they (TT) deliver through Service Partners. MITIE is one of TT's Service Providers. As the Department does not directly contract with MITIE there is no spend information etc..

So as a result of having to attend the Jobcentre, a private company is able to record and store our information of which the DWP has no control over..