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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.
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
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
