Political party notorious for data breaches accuses leader candidate team of data breach
Keir Frowner: and well he might – does he know what his team members have been doing?
This is a rum affair, and no mistake.
It seems the organisations that run the Labour Party – the NEC and its officers, for example – have no compunctions about breaking data protection rules when it suits them.
They did it in their disciplinary procedures against me (and I have a letter saying as much from the Information Commissioner’s Office), and I read that they have done it in their investigation (if you can call it that) of Asa Winstanley too.
But now they’re making themselves out to have been the wronged party in a data breach by leadership candidate Keir Starmer’s campaign team.
The hypocrisy is astonishing.
This Writer would hope that the Information Commissioner’s Office – which has said it would discuss Labour’s data breaches with the party, although nothing tangible seems to have materialised from that claim – will use this as leverage.
Now that the party itself is complaining, the argument could go, will it not accept that it has data responsibilities of its own?
All of the above having been said, of course it should be noted that any data breach by Starmer’s people should be investigated and, if necessary, prosecuted to the limits of the ICO’s ability.
My experience, though, is that those limits are very limited indeed.
The Labour party has formally reported members of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign team to the Information Commissioner, accusing them of hacking into the party’s membership database, the BBC has learned.
The allegations were made against two members of Sir Keir’s team – one of them is his compliance official.
They were passed to the Information Commissioner’s Office on Thursday.
Sir Keir and his team said the claims were “utter nonsense”.
Source: Labour accuses Keir Starmer campaign team of data breach – BBC News
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