Wow… two in two days. What’s going on? Have the police suddenly decided that taking offenses more seriously and letting the public know they’re doing so is the way to go? Adam Binnie reports: A detective based in Watford has been charged with a series of data protection offences. Adrian Moir, 45, from Croxley Green,…
Category: Breaches
UK: Sgt Allan Jackson charged with data protection breach
BBC reports: A Strathclyde Police officer has been charged with illegally obtaining personal information about a man suspected of having a gun. Sgt Allan Jackson, 44, allegedly ordered two constables to access police records and tell him whether the man held a firearms certificate. At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, he denied knowingly or recklessly breaching the…
MI: Man charged with hacking wife’s email vows to fight after case sent to trial
A Rochester Hills man charged with a 5-year felony for reading his wife’s email pledged today to take the matter to the state’s highest court after a lower court refused to dismiss the charge. In a written opinion released this morning, the Michigan Court of Appeals rule that Leon Walker should proceed to trial on…
UK: New Approach to Privacy: AMP v Persons Unknown
Andrew Murray writes: I mentioned on Twitter last week that I was involved in a potentially ground breaking court case but that I couldn’t say any more. Well the judgement came out this morning. The case is AMP v Person’s Unknown [2011] EWHC 3454 (TCC) and the impact it may have is far reaching in…