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Fergal Quinn Urges Use Of Anti-Terrorist Software To Monitor Welfare Claimants

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Friday April 27, 2012 12:02author by pat c Report this post to the editors

That money grubbing clown Senator Fergal Quinn now wants to use anti terrorist methods to monitor welfare claimants.The software would look for words like holiday or new car. This is the same crook who set up a separate company to get around hello money legislation. Full text at link.

Senator Feargall Quinn moments ago in the Seanad has suggested that the Government consider monitoring the use of the internet by social welfare recipients to detect instances of fraud. Keywords such as "holiday" and "new car" could indicate instances of fraud, according to Senator Quinn.

Quinn, speaking during the Second Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012 in the Seanad, suggested the Government consider a system used in the Netherlands which uses counter-terrorism software to detect keywords used by recipients of social welfare

Related Link: http://www.politics.ie/news/senator-quinn-suggests-counter-terrorist-software-should-used-monitor-social-welfare-recipients-use-social-media-290.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   "Nuts"     Milestogo    Sat Apr 28, 2012 18:17 
   good idea     lara    Sat Apr 28, 2012 18:58 
   thats nothing....     lefty    Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:24 
   and now..     opus diablos    Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:11 
   @Iara     opus diablos    Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:39 
   and from..     opus diablos    Sun Apr 29, 2012 13:10 
   ''getting tough with the unemployed''     ruari    Tue May 01, 2012 11:16 
   completely bonkers idea off his head     sinead    Tue May 01, 2012 16:23 
   right wing FG don't care about the costs to the public     lefty    Tue May 01, 2012 17:15 
 10   chasetherealscammers     chasetherealscammers    Mon May 07, 2012 18:10 
 11   Yes     Al    Mon May 07, 2012 19:47 
 12   typical right wing hypocrisy...     WelfareNazis    Mon May 07, 2012 20:17 
 13   Help not surveillance.     Rational Ecologist    Wed May 09, 2012 11:19 


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