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Labour’s mayor candidate forced to apologise over data breach

EXCLUSIVE: Rowenna Davis, the very well-connected Labour candidate for Croydon Mayor, this week found herself tangled up in a breach of hundreds of people’s personal data, raising questions about the competence of her campaign. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Rowenna … Continue reading

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Information Commissioner says council is ‘failing residents’

National regulator says it is ‘deeply disappointed’ with Croydon, which has broken the Freedom of Information laws at least 227 times in the past year and now faces possible High Court action. By STEVEN DOWNES Cash-strapped Croydon Council could face … Continue reading

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#TheLabourFiles: Source of hacked data worked for Evans

Further links to the Labour Party’s General Secretary have been confirmed since Al Jazeera broadcast The Spying Game documentary. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Further investigations since Al Jazeera broadcast their documentary “The Spying Game” have discovered that the person who … Continue reading

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Commissioner finds against Croydon MP for data breaches

After numerous letters and emails and being fobbed off by local Tories, DAVID WHITE took a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office over the abuse of his personal data by Gavin Barwell MP Gavin Barwell MP breached the Data Protection … Continue reading

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Council fined £100,000 for losing child sex victim’s documents

Croydon Council has today been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office and accused of negligence after a social worker had sensitive documents on the welfare of a child sex victim stolen from a local pub. The reason that the … Continue reading

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