Saturday 24 February 2018

Cuddles of Warm Affection (2)

In the view of many people, this blog included, BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita's bullying scum like the nasty bullying pillock presented here deserve all the hostility they get.
They set out to ruin peoples’ lives and whinge, whine, threaten and bluster then they to resort to enforcement abuses and the vindictive exploitation of legitimate enforcement procedures when they are quite properly challenged and exposed to public scrutiny.
In this case, a BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita bully by the name of Dragan going from door to door making accusations and making demands for payment from a household, which, in the sickening phrase used by the BBC, is "correctly licensed".  Not only making demands for payment on the spot but demanding, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, 7 years back payments and the bank details of the householder.  Well, if this how BBC TV Licensing contractor Capta bullying door to door bullies deal with a "correctly licensed" household we at TV Licensing Watch dread to think how they deal with unlicensed households.  Though in the light of copious evidence we and others have collected over the years we know only too well the bullying, harassment and dirty tricks commission fixated and Code 8 obsessed BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita resort to behind the shabby cloak of BBC TV licence fee administration and enforcement. Having treated this "correctly licensed" household the well practised way he did, it is a safe bet that BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita door to door bully Dragan has done this before and got away with it.
It's becoming rather a well worn BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita door to door goon habit screwing people left, right and centre under the noses of management and then the BBC denying all knowledge of wrongdoing.  Suffice to say, in this case, Dragan's approach is a very interesting way of "enhancing the public acceptability of the TV licence fee".  Very interesting.  Dragan visited this household on the basis that it was unlicensed, when, in fact the household is licensed.  It raises yet again suspicions, in our minds at least, that the BBC TV licence database operated by Capita is inaccurate and therefore non-compliant.  BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita and their door to door bullies do not know who is licensed and who is unlicensed such must be the shambolic state of the BBC TV licence database.
To paraphrase Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris

“Dragan, entered his BBC TV Licensing™ career under the rather childish delusion that he would ruin other people’s lives and that nobody was going to ruin his. At his first visit and every visit thereafter he put that rather naive theory into operation. He sowed the wind and now he will reap the whirlwind”

Fetch up at peoples' doorsteps hiding behind a cloak of so-called petty enforcement with the intention of ruining their lives, Dragan and the rest of them at BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita, don't expect to be welcomed with cuddles of warm affection and don't be surprised when people cut up rough and stand up for themselves.
Let there be no mistake, BBC and the BBC TV licence fee ruins lives.  When the BBC deny the BBC lie.  When will all BBC TV licence fee administration and enforcement bullying end?  When the BBC TV licence fee gets abolished and not a day before. 

The sooner the courts enforced BBC TV licence fee gets abolished the better.

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.
For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.

Saturday 3 February 2018

Rudd Defence



Available at What Do They Know? and elsewhere are redacted copies of the BBC provided TV Licensing™ Court Presenters' Manual.

As is often the case, a fearful, secretive BBC, oblivious to the realities of the internet and easy access to information from other sources, has redacted some of the most useful bits of information within that document in a rather comedic and futile attempt to keep it secret.  A fearful, secretive BBC, try to keep these things secret but people just can’t help finding things out. What an inconvenient curse the internet and alternative media have proven to be for the BBC and its BBC TV Licensing™ administration and enforcement contractor Capita.  In particular, we note that the BBC censors have removed all mention of the successful House of Lords Appeal in the case of Rudd  vs The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.


In that Appeal, heard in 1987, brought by a defendant, Jeffrey Rudd, who was accused and convicted of an offence contrary to section 1 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, namely, that he was using equipment for the purposes of wireless telegraphy without a licence granted by the Secretary of State.


Even though the judgement is now over 30 years old, it is still relevant to this today because the TV licence sections of the Communications Act 2003 are derived from that Wireless Telegraphy Act. The BBC and its BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita are fearful of the legal precedent set and consequent loss of easy revenue streams created by the Rudd judgement, which is why it has been airbrushed from the TV Licensing™ Court Presenters' Manual.


A summary of the Rudd judgment can be read here, but cutting through the legalese it boils down to this significant fact: For a defendant to be guilty of TV licence fee evasion, a Capita court presenter must prove that a television receiver or other devices were actually used, and not merely that they were unlicensed audio-visual equipment or other devices available for use.


This means that unlicensed possession of a television receiver, audio-visual equipment or other device is not an offence, unless it is actually used as a television receiver.




"There may well be circumstances in which, for example, a television set may be available for use in a person's house, and yet he may have no intention to use it and so may not license it. Thus he may be about to go away from home at the time when the licence expires, and not intend to renew the licence until he returns home. It is difficult to see why in such circumstances he should be convicted for an offence under section 11 (of the 1949 Act) on the ground only that the set was available for use and unlicensed..."


He continued:


"I recognise that this conclusion may create problems for the enforcing authorities in so far as it means that they cannot simply rely upon the fact that the relevant apparatus was available for use. They will, I fear, have to go further and will if necessary have to persuade the court to draw the inference that the apparatus in question was used by the defendant during the relevant period. But I trust and believe that if, for example, a television set in working order is found in the sitting room of a house occupied by the defendant, it will not be difficult for a court to draw the necessary inference in the absence of some credible explanation by the defendant to the effect that it was not being used."


It therefore follows that BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita’s court presenter has a weak case unless a person at an unlicensed address was actually seen in the act of receiving TV programmes without a valid TV licence.


Anyone caught with a TV receiver, audio-visual equipment or other device in unlicensed premises could offer the perfectly valid defence that it wasn't in use, but was present for some non-licensable purpose, for example, listening to radio, playing video games, watching DVDs and videos or use for CCTV monitoring.



Remember that BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita’s target driven, Code 8 obsessed dross have no automatic right of entry to any property. You can avoid the risk of having to rely on the Rudd defence by ignoring BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita completely. In fact, there is every reason to and it is in your own interests to do so.  Tell them nothing and never allow them access to your home.

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.
For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.


Friday 26 January 2018

Insecurities











The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.


For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.



Tuesday 16 January 2018

Data Harvest Festival




David Perry, QC, must be in raptures.  For those of you who are not acquainted with David Perry, QC, he was charged with onerous task of investigating BBC TV licence fee enforcement and his findings, The Perry Review into TV LicenceEnforcement is the starting point for this blog entry. 

In his report, Perry, recommended that the BBC, or to be more precise, BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita, indulge in what he termed “basic data harvesting” to promote the efficiency of the administration and enforcement of the outdated and draconian BBC TV licence fee.

Well, it seems that his “basic data harvesting” recommendation has borne fruit.  BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita, beside themselves with flushed excitement, have flung themselves excitedly into the task of “basic data harvesting” with the voracious appetite of the new rich, and with their characteristic flagrant disregard  have exceeded the scope and remit of the task.  Writing this particular blog entry brings to mind an earlier blog entry, “Innovative or Intrusive?”.

A screenshot of one of the fruits borne of, Perry’s Review into TV Licence Enforcement, is presented below.  It is a questionnaire sent out by BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita concerning the circumstances of a change of address.


Now, we don’t know about you, but we are of the opinion that this questionnaire is a gross intrusion into the private arrangements freely and privately entered into between consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes.  Our advice to anybody who receives this questionnaire from, BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita, is not to respond to it.  Once people have divulged this sensitive personal information and identified themselves in connection with a particular address they have completely lost control of how that data is used and into whose hands that information may fall.  If people have any doubt whatsoever how data will be exploited, then do not supply it.  If people have any misgivings that personal data supplied by them will be used against them, then do not supply it.  Given BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita’s TV licence fee administration and enforcement track record since 2002, the year the BBC first awarded Capita the contract, people have every reason not supply sensitive personal information about themselves to BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita.

Data harvesting by BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita is not limited to intrusive questionnaires.  Utilities and occupancy data gathered by Morrison Data Services is exploited.  Then there is the rather questionable arrangement with Acxiom in which consumer transaction data unrelated to the BBC TV licence fee is obtained and exploited.  


Interestingly, the Perry Review into TV Licence Enforcement recommended the reinstatement of the TV Dealer Notification to TV Licensing scheme abolished 25 June 2013.  Although TV Dealer Notification to TV Licensing scheme was abolished 25 June 2013 many retailers still seem to have and use the TV dealer notification form books.  These TV dealer notification form books, completed or not, were all supposed to have been securely destroyed by now but clearly they have not.  However, there is growing evidence that seems to indicate that a shadow/ghost notification scheme to TV Licensing is in operation.

Apparently, the 29+ million Postal Address File addresses stored in the Capita operated TV Licensing™ databases is insufficient and now, BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita, want to include additional fake and non-addresses in their already chronically unreliable address-bloated databases.  Which, we found out recently, stored details of a person who had been deceased for 11 years and which, knowing the depths and extent of  Capita’s chronic incompetence, undoubtedly stores details of countless other people long since deceased.

We also recall, Consumer Champion, Anna Tims, “congratulating” TV Licensing™ which had created 4 different fake address records in TV Licensing™ databases for 1 residential address purposely to entrap a person, a TV licence holder, into paying up alleged arrears for a TV licence.  “Canniest Profit Booster” she called it.  Given BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita’s propensities and track record that will be replicated Heaven knows how many times.

Another recent example of TV licence databases fake and non-address bloat was the bulk delivery of 130 TV Licensing™ threatograms to the office address of a holiday park.  Then take into account the innumerable instances of “correctly licensed” households who receive TV Licensing threatograms for year after year despite repeatedly informing BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita they are licensed. 


“Why don’t you check your database?” is the constant refrain but to no avail.  Perhaps the thumbnails go someway to explaining what must, after 16 years of Capita stewardship of TV licence fee administration and enforcement, amount to millions fake and non-address errors and duplications stored in Capita operated TV Licensing™ databases.


Fake and non-address errors and duplications which for BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita, yield a financial harvest of unexpected additional revenue by way of duplicated payments which people may not notice.  Yes, there’s money in them there fake and non-address errors and duplications and it is in the financial interests of the BBC and their TV Licensing contractor Capita to keep it quiet as the BBC tries to bale itself out financially as the full cost of taxpayer funded BBC TV licence fee concessions are transferred from the DWP to the BBC.  Some £800 million.  The BBC is going to need all those TV Licensing™ databases fake and non-address errors and duplications to keep solvent.




By now the notion that what BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita are doing conforms to “basic data harvesting” will have long since been dispelled.  It more than exceeds “basic data harvesting”.  To us it seems more like collecting sensitive personal information tarted up as data harvesting to corner people into buying TV licences they have no legal need of. 

Why?  Go back to the questionnaire. 

“To help establish whether a separate TV licence is needed please answer the following questions and return this email to us.“

Notice the switch about who makes the decision whether a TV licence is needed.  It is not the people unwise enough to complete and return the questionnaire, it is BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita.  Who will exploit the private information to their advantage by using it against the people who have supplied it?   BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita.

“ . . . . Once we receive this information we?ll (we’ll)be able to confirm the licensing requirements at the address . . . . “

“we’ll”?  Once they have confirmed “the licensing requirements at the address”  and it means buying a TV licence and people unwise enough to have completed the questionnaire disagree, what then?  It opens a window of opportunity for BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita to exploit private information to their advantage by using it against the people who have supplied it.

Currently, the TV licence databases are address based.  The BBC wants to change that to customer name databases.  Why?  There are more people than addresses so the potential take in TV licence fees is greater per name than per address.  The BBC wants people to have individual BBC accounts.  This can be seen in the insidious way iPlayer has been, bit by bit, restricted to one person per household by virtue of linking a TV licence number to one email address at one residential address and thereby throttling access to iPlayer to one person at a time.  Once BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita can link names to addresses and payment records it is, Bonanza!  Multiple TV licence fees per address and a means of entrapping and binding individuals into hoops of financial obligation into obtaining TV licences which by law they may not need. 

Yes, David Perry, QC, must be in raptures.  BBC TV Licensing™contractor Capita certainly seem to be.  More so.  We bet they can hardly believe their luck.

People can bring the collective raptures of Perry and BBC TV Licensing contractor Capita to an abrupt end.  How?  By simply asking themselves, “How I live: What business is it of BBC TV Licensing™ contractor Capita?”

None

The value of domestic cctv surveillance and handheld video camera can prove invaluable in gathering evidence of the serial abuses and misdemeanours perpetrated by employees of Capita Business Services under cover of the BBC TV Licensing™ contract. TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ to make an audio-visual record of those dealings in their entirety covertly or overtly with cctv and handheld video cameras.
For people who have not exercised their right to remain silent, TV Licensing Watch advise anybody who has had the misfortune to have face to face dealings with Capita BBC TV Licensing™ and have received a summons as a consequence to contact a licensed law practitioner if: there is the slightest discrepancy between the actual situation regarding viewing habits and/or what actually happened during the interview compared with what has been written on the TVL178 Record of Interview self incrimination form.