Data breaches by Mermaids exposed in the Times

I’m also a school governor and have really struck by how seriously confidentiality is taken. I have never heard a name or anything identifying at all in the many conversations I’ve been involved in about the children. My own personal information, some of it very, very sensitive, has been shared with hundreds of people inadvertently twice. It was horrific but at least the societies involved acted at once to mitigate the impact of it and apologised. There was none of the Mermaids’ sorry, not sorry BS.

That's a god article

It all adds to the cracks, everything adds to the cracks.

Partisan, you are sadly on the money there.

Celia Walden in the Telegraph today

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/moral-high-ground-can-treacherous-place/

Some of the emails suggest a cosy relationship and information sharing with Polly Carmichael and the Tavistock. They are also implicated in all this.

Prediction: Massive Fine and Admonishment from IOC; Gushing support from those who’s information was leaked (or refusal to publicly complain); Massive donation to pay the fine; talks and articles by SG on importance of robust data management for ‘small’ charities of the ‘Lessons Learned’ variety and...business as usual

Anyone else from a charity wish to go to this charity event in Leeds and ask Susie Green about good governance of a small charity? She would like to talk about "the most recent developments for the charity", apparently!

Why is nobody in authority joining the dots?

They ARE the dots.

Why is nobody in authority joining the dots?

Cos they aren't looking for issues.

They are just accepting things at face value.

They don't WANT to see an issue, because if they do, they have to do something about it.

Which says a few things about the big lottery who were supposed to investigate...

The authority is part of the problem in most cases I think.

Why is nobody in authority joining the dots?

If this is genuinely the correct archive, there also appears to be a page of a 'MAPS' research group in amongst them. Am I reading this wrongly. Hopefully I am.

Poor families. This is horror show.

*This suggests, in a way, how much she regards mermaids families as her personal fiefdom and property.

No one, not even the trustees, seems capable of questioning what she was doing.*

And with such a massive cull of trustees, who are there to challenge and hold the organisation to account, creating a personal fiefdom will be very easy. 3 cosy chums do not make for a robust governance structure.

3 incarnations of the Mermaids statement......not great at PR are they?

Oh good another NHS doctor to avoid...Mermaid’s newest Trustee

Anthony James is Benjamin Cohen's husband
Benjamin Cohen is the founder & CEO of Pink News

Cohen is a lobbyist with considerable influence

Some examples of Pink News (Prick News) bias, false reporting etc on thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3390910-Can-we-talk-about-Pink-News-Collecting-examples-of-their-propaganda

Trustees are supposed to hold staff to account though- how do they deal with the conflict of interests there?

He is married to the Pink Penis News CEO Ben Cohen

Oh good another NHS doctor to avoid...Mermaid’s newest Trustee

Katvon, one of the feature of this, is the failure of Susie Green personally, to recognise / care about the sensitive nature of that information. And for non of the trustees to question what she was sharing with them.

Susie treated that information as her property and for her to freely use for her own purposes without consultation.

This suggests, in a way, how much she regards mermaids families as her personal fiefdom and property.

No one, not even the trustees, seems capable of questioning what she was doing.

What an absolute shit show. That's such highly sensitive information. They make me sick. Those poor families. And now it's out there forever.

Trustees aren’t staff, they don’t carry out the work of the charity

That's what I thought but one of their current trustees, Anna Chivers, is both a trustee and a Mermaids helpline volunteer.

Oh sorry, hadn't refreshed. See this has already been posted.

Did the parents know this sharing would be happening and give permission for their correspondence with the charity staff to be shared with Trustees?

You'd need explicit consent from parents that they had agree to sharing this data for a particular purpose to be compliant with data protection law. You can't collect data and use it for purposes you haven't specified, cos its a data breech.

The Times quotes parents affected saying they weren't.

Would be more reassuring that either if the other explanations.

It would, but extremely foolish and wrong of Mermaids to store them where anyone with web editing rights could see them and where they were vulnerable.