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  JW Door-to-Door Notekeeping Attracts Scrutiny of EU Authorities

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a newly- enacted eu gdpr privacy protection law, to become effective from may 25, has apparently prompted jws to file suit in protest: .

  (translated from the italian) .

  source: ex-jwblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-gdpr.html):.

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  The CJEU judgment will be delivered on 10 July.
  
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  Newsweek: JW wives in Russia send letter to Putin advisor

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this article is dated june 7, 2018 and is likely a lead up to the bear ripping the jw bible article.

  http://www.newsweek.com/wives-jehovahs-witnesses-jailed-russia-send-letter-putin-adviser-begging-end-965516.

  the wives of jehovah’s witnesses rounded up and imprisoned in russia have written an open letter to a top adviser of president vladimir putin, asking him to stop the campaign of terror against the religious group.“this open letter to you is a cry of desperation.

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  I think someone on Newsweek staff has some intimate connections to WT/org

  I think it's a duty of the press to inform about such gross human rights violations. Especially when the "Leader of the Free World" likes Putin more than US allies.
  

  I notice that Newsweek hasn't reported on this story:

  https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/05/29/alexey-navalny-s-campaign-coordinator-in-chelyabinsk-is-reportedly-caught-with-illegal-religious-literature
  

  Another ridiculous attempt to whitewash the Russian authorities' actions. They are not fastidious about any means they use against Navalny's movement. First a criminal case under far-fetched charges of "hooliganism motivated by social and political hatred to Putin and local governor", then search in the house of Zolotarevsky's mother, and illegal leaks of personal information to the government-controlled press and bloggers. In fact, the Zolotarevsky is not a Witness (he is probably a former one), and there was no religious literature found at his home. The police officers are the only criinals in this story.
  

  This tactic is so misleading - women are being used to gain public approval for the org's actions at the same time that women are treated horribly within the org

  What's misleading? Are they wives of prisoners of conscience unlawfully persecuted for their religion? Yes.

  And there is no aim "to gain public approval for the org's actions" - only to defend themselves against the grave human rights violations. So, your comments are misleading, as like your continuous attempts to justify and glorify the Russian state's crimes.
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

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  Hi slimboyfat, 2017 WTB account is available on the website of Companies House here: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03858051/filing-history

  Is there a year-over-year posted somewhere?
  

  Frankly, I don't know. The only thing I know is that WTB, IBSA and Kingdom Halls Trust reports are available on the Companies House site))
  
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

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  A good counter-example: Watch Tower Britain recently reported that the total amount of its cash was at an all-time high of £100 million as of 31 August 2017. Shall we conclude that the financial situation of JW organization in UK is extremely good?
  
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

  biggest changes:.

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  http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/t3010returnlist-eng.action?b=119288918RR0001&n=Watch+Tower+Bible+and+Tract+Society+of+Canada+%2F+La+Tour+de+Garde+Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9+de+Bibles+et+de+Tracts+du+Canada

  I think this is the source
  
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  GDPR Day

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, it's may 25th - gdpr day.

  has anyone had a last minute visit from the elders?.

  i've been out shopping and i have come home to find a note pushed through the door saying two elders and one elder's wife had called by.. why would two elders + wife come to see me?

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  JW Door-to-Door Notekeeping Attracts Scrutiny of EU Authorities

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a newly- enacted eu gdpr privacy protection law, to become effective from may 25, has apparently prompted jws to file suit in protest: .

  (translated from the italian) .

  source: ex-jwblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-gdpr.html):.

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  This is not an update but old news from February. The case is still before the CJEU.
  
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  Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

  by respectful_observer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

  it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

  you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

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  Do German religions really have the power to create a 'religious law' that adds to or even substitutes secular law as your translation of 'Gesetz' with 'law' implies? Or is this just a 'policy'?
  

  'Gesetz' is generally translated as 'law'; for example, 'Grundgesetz' is the German Basic Law, and 'Strafgesetzbuch' is 'Criminal Code'.

  The religious communities with public law status enjoy a number of special rights and privileges (Religion and Law in Germany, paras. 230 et seq.) including the right to self-determination - i.e., to regulate and administer their own affairs within the limits of the law of "particular importance to the common weal" (Ibid, paras. 299-306).

  German law usually refers to "regulations" (Regelungen) of religious communities; but it is not uncommon among churches to adopt 'gesetzes' (an example) that are translated in English as 'laws', 'acts' or 'regulations'. See, for example, this CJEU judgment, para. 18.
  
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  Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

  by respectful_observer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

  it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

  you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

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  This Monday, the German branch committee adopted a new data protection law (DSGJZ). It enters into force tomorrow.

  https://www.jehovaszeugen.de/uploads/media/Amtsblatt_2018_Nr._2.pdf

  I has created a bilingual file (the English text is a partially corrected machine translation); it is available here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PqhnipxPm3dPQTVXVjiiBftOEvdboRJB/view?usp=sharing
  
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  Judgment Day in Russia

  by Tahoe in

  1. social
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  http://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-are-having-their-homes-raided-even-remote-towns-934734.

  law enforcement officials in birobidzhan, russia, a small town close to the border with china, raided 20 homes belonging to jehovah’s witnesses, according to members of the religious organization.. the raids were conducted by around 150 police officers, who nicknamed their operation “judgement day,” jarrod lopes, a member of the jehovah’s witnesses, told newsweek.

  police confiscated photographs, bank cards, money and electronic devices from the houses they searched, said lopes.. a criminal case was opened against a man named alam aliev, who will be kept in pretrial detention until july, members of the religious group said.

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  The problem with stories like this hitting mainstream news is that the public knows so little about jw's they will see it as some quirky 'church' maybe a bit weird being 'persecuted'.
  

  The Witnesses in Russia are unlawfully persecuted.

  In general, in Russia the authorities act fairly competently
  

  In general, they act unlawfully and fraudulently.
  

  JW Organization recognizes Extremistics
  

  ...by the ridiculous poorly reasoned BS judgment of the Supreme Kangaroo "Court".

  but not JW religion
  

  In fact, the entire religion was banned.
  

  They do not arrest everyone in a row, but only elders.
  

  First, this doesn't matter at all. Second, this can and will change.
  

  because to just believe in God, all this is not necessary.
  

  It is not a secular state's right to decide what is necessary to believe in God.

  Russia isn't in Europe.

  Russia is a CoE member state and is under jurisdiction of the ECtHR.