Council snooping on my drinking habits (matter resolved - its a scam!)

Mankysteve

I think you need to now change the title of this thread as well, This did give me a bit of smile though thanks.

Soubrette

Zazen999 wrote: »

You are missing the point that it wasn't the council in the first place!

SSSsssshhhh - don't spoil the fun

Sou

Mankysteve

cyberbob wrote: »

I think your missing the point Jimmy. Its not the fact that they are giving Drink aware stuff out. Its the fact that they are monitoring what the house is drinking! (if they are and its not a wind up)My questions to the councillors would how is the data being collected. Is it being looged somewhere and who has access to it and if they are they better delete it all

Did you read though the posts it wasn't the council sending out the letters.

brightonman123

just hope my ahem, magazine research goes unnoticed :-)

JimmyTheWig

cyberbob wrote: »

I think your missing the point Jimmy. Its not the fact that they are giving Drink aware stuff out. Its the fact that they are monitoring what the house is drinking! (if they are and its not a wind up)My questions to the councillors would how is the data being collected. Is it being looged somewhere and who has access to it and if they are they better delete it all

Slightly irrelevant as it isn't the council but some dodgy outfit, but even so...

Are you saying that it would be ok for the council to give Drink Aware leaflets door to door to every house, but not ok for them to give it to the people most likely to need them?

It's not like they're coming in to people's kitchens, or putting cameras in people's front rooms. They're using information that is freely available to them.
It's the equivalent of someone coming on here asking for, say, credit card debt advice and mentioning that they smoke 40 a day. Even though it's not what they came here for, I think posters would be right to suggest they cut down.

shaven-monkey

Their stats may have come from a store loyalty card database, where your purchases are
tallied and stored and then the data is sold on to "other selected companies".

brightonman123

i just hope councils dont end up like a recent Star Trek Voyager episode.. people getting medical care acording to their status.. but not allowed to improve their status either..?

paulofessex

wik wrote: »

My dad is king of recycling.. but he wont put to many wine bottles in the glass box... in case the neighbours think we drink too much
So he takes them in car to the bottle bank at tescos

At our local Tescos you get clubcard points for placing bottle in the recycling machine. They used to do plastic bottles too, but they found that people were cutting the plastic ones in half so doubling up the points

Owain_Moneysaver

davidlizard wrote: »

We get a letter today (hand delivered, from the council), saying that they notice we "may be" consuming "significantly more alcohol than average". There then follows some phone numbers for advice, including some workshop the council run, and a "drink aware" leaflet.

Make a Freedom of Information Act to the council asking how many of these letters they send out, and the criteria for establishing who gets one. Also ask for the cost of sending each letter, and a copy of the Minutes of all council meetings and internal memos establishing and implementing the policy.

marleyboy

The matter has now been resolved, it was not from the council.

I do wish the OP would edit the title of this thread to include "matter resolved".