NO2ID

Hello

How can i get to see all my record including any comments made by officers both here and abroad by contacting the UKPA.

Im sure ive been blacklisted or something, each time after ive come back from the US i've been getting grief and stopped at the customs or they've made blatant excuses just to see if my passport if real. Heaven sake im getting sick of it.

Can anyone provide any legal / civil liberties avenues i can go down to get the UKPA to hand over my information. I want to see what they've got written on my file!.

Hmm, you would think that would come under FOI or Data Protection... I don't know about how that all works. Instead of being hostile about wanting to see your record, you might be better just writing a letter to them explaining the problems you've been having and see how far you get with that. If that fails then obviously persue the other means.

It could just be something as simple as your picture not looking much like yourself, I've had that one when I grew my hair out when returning to the UK.

I also hate the way you're expected to quickly answer all these questions at airport customs when because of jetlag, your bodyclock time is 4am, so you're not all there.

Subject Access Rights are provided for in the Data Protection Act. A guide to making a Subject Access Request is available from the Information Commissioner's Office: Subject Access - a guide for data subjects

SAR's are a limited vehicle AFAIA although correct me if I am wrong. Standard data may be released but any notes by 'supposed' competent/professional individuals or indeed any data deemed as "Intelligence" will not be supplied to the individual.

Similar to an Enhanced Disclosure where the proposer (Employer etc) is supplied the information (if deemed relevent) from the discloser (Police etc) although the individual is generally (ok always) excluded access to this "Intelligence".

I can only speak from experience viz a viz ... "Detained" circa 1996 ... there is no necessity in Law to arrest nor charge for alleged illicit drug offence[s]. Suffice to say there was no arrest, charge nor caution [yet this detainment has been entered as "Intelligence" and held on record .. lets just say I know this is fact ]. I WAS indeed under the influence of drugs ... 6 Guinness and 3 Jägermeister yet after being stripped searched and subjected to un-necessary attention ... "Intelligence" details me as a possible illicit drug user! I guess 'Dubia' will not be a stop over destination from now on lol! How long before the 'Dubya' declines me entry?!

This has [is] a serious impediment to my consultancy work overall but in the UK banking sector primarily. While I was cleared to assist the Home Office in a technical capacity ~2003 for the mirror (sister) internet backbone project ... such clearance it would seem has ZERO bearing currently. Granted I would not now participate anyway but prior it was part of my employers T&C's albeit maybe not directly.

Comments?

Is it only returning from American routes that you're getting the grief?

I've heard such fun stories about the TSA, that they sound a likely culprit.

Pilot on " no fly " TSA list
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/20/tsa-puts-commercial.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tsa.watch.list/index.html


The American Civil Liberties Union estimates more than 1 million names have been added to the watch list since the September 11 attacks.

The FBI, which manages the Terrorist Screening Database, disputes that figure. It says that there are about 400,000 actual people on the list and that about 95 percent of those people are not U.S. citizens.