Unsolicited ‘Offensive’ Political Emails Stir Data Privacy Concerns in East London

As a result of an online mailing list that has been set up without any consent of the Tower Hamlets residents, content that is anti-Israel, anti-Labour and pro-Workers Party of Britain has been distributed without their knowing.

In recent weeks, a Jewish woman known as Miriam Sadique had operated at least five newsletters using the Substacks platform. These newsletters had been called ‘Muslims Today’, ‘East London Updates’, ‘East London’, ‘London Today’, and ‘Tower Hamlets Today’ within the last few weeks. 

It should be noted that the majority of the Islamic websites have been lost, but ‘Muslims Today’ is still active.

Some residents of Tower Hamlets have expressed concern over how their information has been shared by political newsletters that sent them unsolicited emails before and after the general election. It has been reported that within the last week, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) has viewed screenshots from more than 600 emails that were sent to residents of Tower Hamlets and people who lived in the borough between July 3 and July 10 from several sources. 

There were different emails sent from multiple substacks from a single author called Mirriam Sadique in all of the emails judged by the LDRS. These emails were all promoting the Workers Party of Britain (WPB) and criticizing the opposition Labour Party. There is no information available about whether ‘Mirriam Sadique’ is a false profile, or an alias, with this name.

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