As you know, the Data Protection Act treats you and John as separate individuals, with each of you having separate rights under the Act. However, as you will appreciate, given your and Johns working relationship and our understanding that you both jointly operate the RoyalDutchShell plc website, it is often difficult to separate out data that relates purely to one or other of you.
Richard Wiseman Shell
Constructive email correspondence between Shell and the Donovan’s
This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website,
johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com,
are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
Shell Ethics Chief involved in bending the truth
We should not give the impression that we are over-concerned with the D’s website, or that management spends a lot of time worrying about it. (Shell)
By John Donovan
I am still studying the Shell internal documents and communications the company was recently obliged to supply to me in accordance with an application under the Data Protection Act.
It is interesting to note the way events in our unusual relationship with Shell have been spun by Shell lawyers, depending on who is being given the information.
Richard Wiseman (right) is now the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. We crossed swords with him many times during the seven separate court actions we brought against the oil giant, which settled ALL of these claims, involving breach of confidence, breach of contract and libel.
Shell Internet Censorship
“One of the principles underlying all of our work on the Web has been that we should be true to the spirit of New Shell. This means that we are seen to be open, listening, interested in the views of others…”: SHELL CENSOR – MARCH 1999
Shell Internet Censorship
By John Donovan
Printed below is a Shell internal email sent in March 1999. Shell was obliged to supply it to us in accordance with an application we made under the UK Data Protection Act. The “X’s” denote sections redacted (censored) by Shell, which includes the name of its author and apparently an extensive circulation list – 4 lines deep.
Shell data hackers hoped to kick-off ‘revolution’
ITPRO
A document released with the stolen database suggests Shell could face more breaches.
By Richard Thurston, 16 Feb 2010 at 15:13
A lengthy document sent by allegedly disillusioned Shell employees to leading environmental and human rights activists sought to launch a corporate revolution at the oil giant.
The document, which was given to IT PRO, was attached to a leaked database containing contact details of nearly every Shell employee. It was sent by 116 disillusioned full-time employees in the US, the UK and the Netherlands to Greenpeace and other campaign groups active in Nigeria.
The document contained information on how the contact database could be used change the way Shell operates, by influencing employees, the public, top institutional investors and non-governmental organisations.
Shell guilty of allowing worlds biggest breach of employee details
By John Donovan
Shell media spin machine went into overdrive last week trying to downplay the worlds biggest ever leak of employee details, including personal information, which Shell Ethics boss Richard Wiseman, has twice admitted puts the safety of some employees at risk.
A copy of a related email from Mr Wendel Broere, Group spokesman, Global media relations, Shell International B.V, desperately engaged on a damage limitation exercise with the news media, was leaked to me on the day it was sent. My role is discussed in the email, no doubt because I am the person who broke the story which turned into a global PR disaster for Shell, with all kinds of unwelcome repercussions, including an investigation by the Information Commissioners Office and the prospect of a fine for being reckless with confidential employee data.
Shell hit by massive data breach
The Register
Posted in IT Director, 15th February 2010 09:20 GMT
By John Oates
Shell has been hit by a massive data breach – the contact database for 176,000 staff and contractors at the firm has been copied and forwarded to lobbyists and activists opposed to the company.
John Donovan, an activist who received the database, said he had voluntarily destroyed the files. But he warned that other copies were available online.
The email supposedly comes from 176 “concerned staff” to highlight Shell’s activities in Nigeria. The database is about six months old and could have been released by a recently-laid off staff member, or there could really be a rogue campaign group within Shell.Richard Wiseman, chief ethics and compliance officer at Royal Dutch Shell, wrote to staff last week after the breach emerged.
Alert after Shell workers data leaked on web
Evening Express: Claim that oil firm staff could be at risk
By Jennifer McKiernan and Charlotte Jordan
Published: 12/02/2010
ADVICE: Shell employees at Tullos have been told not to be alarmed
A DATA leak has put Shell oil workers in danger from cyber-criminals and environmental activists, it was claimed today.
A Shell database containing details of 102,000 employees and contractor information was accessed and sent out from the firm, which has a major base in Aberdeen.
The information includes private addresses and mobile phone numbers.
Among those to be sent the details were British blogger John Donovan who said the personal details could be used to dupe staff and put workers in dangerous situation.
Email correspondence with Shell on database breach: 12 FEB 2010
EMAIL RECEIVED FROM RICHARD WISEMAN, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC: FRIDAY 12 FEB 2010
From: [email protected]
Date: 12 February 2010 08:30:20 GMT
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: RE: Shell Global Address Book
Dear Mr Donovan
There is no deceit and my statement was true. An individual may chose to give out his or her card on the basis of the information it contains. The address book along with the data it contained was distributed without the consent of anyone.
I am sure you would not counsel anyone to commit the criminal offences I drew your attention to.
Updated: Shell ethics boss wants evidence of data theft to be destroyed
By John Donovan
The Police have advised me that the database is not of any interest since they are not currently investigating any criminal offenses.
In the light of this information, we have notified Richard Wiseman Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer that we are willing to delete/destroy the copy of the Shell Global Address Book sent to us.
It is not a leaked email or document, but a huge proprietary database storing commercial and personal information. And it belongs to Shell.
It is being destroyed/deleted on a voluntary basis.
Shell ethics boss wants evidence of data theft to be destroyed
Published below is more email correspondence with Richard Wiseman, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. It concerns the Shell Global Address Book containing company and personal contact information for over 100,000 employees. I will leave to readers to decide whether Mr Wiseman is fit for purpose in his current role.
Criminal investigation of allegations concerning Shell employee safety issues
Printed below is self-explanatory email correspondence relating to a Grampian Police investigation arising from allegations made by Mr. Bill Campbell, the former HSE Group Auditor of Shell International. His allegations relate to the Shell Brent Bravo Scandal and related issues, and a pending decision by the Scottish legal authority - the Procurator Fiscal - on whether to bring a prosecution.
Shell’s North Sea history of safety violations, blackmail and blacklisting
By John Donovan
Violation of this court order, Shell warned, could result in the families and survivors concerned being ‘subject to bodily imprisonment: Faced with such legal harassment, even case-hardened lawyers involved in the proceedings reeled in disbelief
A book first published in 1996, “PAYING FOR THE PIPER”, provides more evidence of the dark side of Royal Dutch Shell, which also reflects on its current Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer: Mr. Richard Wiseman.
The book reported on the industrial relations crisis which erupted after the world’s worst offshore disaster in which 167 oil workers died on 6 July 1988 in an explosion and fire on the Piper Alpha North Sea oil production platform, operated by Occidental Petroleum.
Hakluyt notorious spying for oil giants Shell and BP
By Alfred Donovan
Printed below in an article published today by the London Evening Standard, plus a related letter I sent to Members of Parliament in 2004 on the same subject.
London Evening Standard
Recession puts Hakluyt spies out in the cold
British intelligence group Hakluyt & Company warned today of a drop in revenues this year after businesses cut back on spying on their rivals in the recession.
But the Mayfair-based firm, which has been described as a retirement home for ex-MI6 officers and whose boardroom roll reads like a Who’s Who of the City, said demand for corporate spooks had started to pick up again.
Age discrimination at Shell: a message directed at Shell Ethics Chief Richard Wiseman
By John Donovan
Interesting that this posting on our Shell Blog, raising the issue of age discrimination in the restructuring process, is directed at Shell veteran Richard Wiseman, the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc who is close to retirement age.
FROM A SHELL INSIDER
A POSTING ON SHELL BLOG BY rockdude1950 on Dec 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Shell encourages anyone with knowledge of activities that go against the company’s code of conduct to step forward and bring those activities to the attention of the Ethics and Compliance manager. The reorganization has provided many examples of actions that violate not just the code of conduct, but the laws of several countries in which Shell operates. I use this way to bring these actions to the attention of the Ethics and Compliance manager since I do fear retribution and a witch hunt, even with all the assurances to the contrary. The violations permeate throughout the process and come down from the high level in the EC.
John Donovan email correspondence with Shell lawyers 28 Nov 2009
From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Date: 28 November 2009 10:16:41 GMT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Data Protection Act 1998 – SAR
Dear Mr White.
Thank you for your email dated 27 November.
I note that you ignored my question about what, in Shell’s view, constitutes a “reasonable interval” between SAR applications from the same applicant. A response on that matter will be made after I receive the delivery of the promised information on or before 1st December i.e. by next Wednesday.
Email from John Donovan to Gavin White, Shell International Limited
Date: 10 November 2009 20:33:38 GMT
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Data Protection Act 1998 – Subject Access Request
Attention of Mr Gavin White, Company Secretarial Department, Shell International Limited
Dear Mr White
You are of course aware of our SAR Application lodged on 4 September 2009 via Mr Brandjes and my subsequent correspondence with you on the matter.
Bearing in mind that no information has yet been supplied, could you please include within the current application, any relevant Shell documents/information/communications/notes/instructions etc right up to date, so that recent events are dealt with now, rather than having to submit a further SAR application.
EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
EBOOK TITLE: “TOXIC FACTS ABOUT SHELL REMOVED FROM WIKIPEDIA: HOW SHELL BECAME THE MOST HATED BRAND IN THE WORLD” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
