Section 55 custodial offence left waiting for Leveson and party politics
5 August 2013
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The Government has decided not to commence the custodial element of the Section 55 offence of the Data Protection Act until the Leveson’s recommendations in relation to the press regulation are done and dusted. Indeed, I now suspect that the Government does not want to commence a custodial S.55 offence at all. In addition, one can expect that data protection, phone hacking and blagging will continue to be in the headlines over the next few months. This is because the
