Posted by: hillingdonfirst on: July 17, 2009
Apologies for the long delay in posting, I’ve been very busy. I visited the Harefield dump this week for the first time (it’s our local) and taking my wife’s card with me (warning: this is against the terms & conditions of use! – but I don’t have a card yet so ?). It wasn’t long [...]
Posted by: hillingdonfirst on: June 29, 2009
The roll out of HillingdonFirst continues … We have had reports of complete chaos at many car parks with parkers not understanding how to use the machine, not knowing about the scheme, not having a card and more worrying, a lot of machines not working. If you have pictures of the faulty machines or the [...]
Posted by: hillingdonfirst on: June 17, 2009
With the cards coming in the post this week, its a good time to discuss the discount scheme for shoppers (a way of softening up the residents). The scheme is voluntary and isn’t actually just a discount, but any additional benefit (for example, giving something away), it just sounds better when they call things a [...]
Posted by: hillingdonfirst on: June 10, 2009
The Uxbridge Gazette has run a story about the HillingdonFirst card scheme. It is not very detailed despite this being a very intrusive and undemocratic scheme. In the piece, Cllr. Mills says that our data can be stored up to 6 years, but won’t be kept any longer than necessary. This is interesting as the [...]
Posted by: hillingdonfirst on: June 9, 2009
Someone has done an amusing (?) photoshop of the HillingdonFirst card over at b3ta.com (Thanks Matt for link). Whilst it is funny, it highlights the sheer amount of information Hillingdon will have on us all. The T&Cs just released mention that Hillingdon will use this information internally for; “administering the Hillingdon Card scheme” “will use such [...]
