Fine of £5,000 reflects a wider data protection malaise
17 July 2009
No Comments
Ian Kerr, the private detective from Droitwich (Worcestershire), maintained a blacklist for use by the construction industry; he has just been fined £5,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act. Although the Information Commissioner has issued a press release explaining that this is the end of the matter, the real truth is that the prosecution exposes the fact that Government chose to exempt manual dodgy dossiers of personal details from the protection afforded by the Act and the weakness of the
