{"id":7550,"date":"2011-02-01T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2011-02-01T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:54:05","slug":"a-nasty-bureaucratic-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/a-nasty-bureaucratic-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"A nasty bureaucratic trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon, my former virtual landlord, sent along this link<\/a> describing it as a “creative solution”:<\/p>\n

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An immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects.<\/p>\n

He used his access to security databases to include his wife on a watch list of people banned from boarding flights into Britain because their presence in the country is ‘not conducive to the public good’.<\/p>\n

As a result the woman was unable for three years to return from Pakistan after travelling to the county to visit family.<\/p>\n

The tampering went undetected until the immigration officer was selected for promotion and his wife name was found on the suspects’ list during a vetting inquiry.<\/p>\n

The Home Office confirmed today that the officer has been sacked for gross misconduct.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because these lists are easy to get added to, but nearly impossible to get removed from (and there’s little chance you get told why you’re on the list — or even if<\/em> you’re on it), this little trick could have continued indefinitely until the perpetrator had to go through security screening for a higher position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon, my former virtual landlord, sent along this link describing it as a “creative solution”: An immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects. He used his access to security databases to include his wife on a watch list of people banned from boarding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,8,10],"tags":[554,397,217,202],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-liberty","tag-immigration","tag-pakistan","tag-rights","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1XM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}