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“DISTURBING” files on crooked cops who traded sensitive data for cash angered trade unionists at construction union Ucatt yesterday, who suspect the scandal is linked to illegal blacklisting.
Union general secretary Steve Murphy voiced alarm following the release of police records showing officers in the Metropolitan Police had sold confidential details for cash — a practice that could have a major bearing on the industry’s ongoing blacklisting dispute.
Requests made to Britain’s largest police force under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed at least 300 recorded breaches of the Data Protection Act by officers since 2009, ranging from spying on partners and relatives through to aiding known criminals.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY