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UK: Cumbria police worker to face trial on data charges

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Dissent

News & Star reports:

A civilian police worker will face trial after denying two data protection offences.

[identity information redacted by DataBreaches.net– see update], faces one charge of knowingly or recklessly obtaining information contained in personal data without the permission of the data controller, and one charge of recklessly or knowingly disclosing that information, in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.

The court heard the information allegedly related to a drink-driving case.

Read more on News & Star.

Update of March 16, 2021:  DataBreaches.net was informed this week that the person named in the story was subsequently acquitted on appeal. Hence, their name has been deleted from this post.

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