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Facebook broke the law during the Brexit referendum – by failing to safeguard people’s information after the data of 87 million people was harvested – and could be fined £500,000 for two breaches of data protection legislation, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced as it calle

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of non-recent child sexual abuse. The inquiry, set up in 2014 to investigate the extent to which institutio

A watchdog has warned that police must shore up failings in their response to hate crime ahead of a potential surge after Brexit. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found in a review that victims had been let down after being targeted because of their

Two pub directors and licensees have been handed a record fine of more than £327,000 for illegally showing Sky transmissions. Four people who ran between them the Prince of Wales in Stafford, the Beaufort Arms in Birmingham and the Pheasant Inn in Wolverhampton were convicted of a total of 64

A transgender judge will deliver the second annual Belfast Pride Legal Lecture next month. Master Victoria McCloud is a Master of the Senior Courts in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court in London.

Privacy International has this week filed an appeal challenging UK police forces' refusal to disclose information on their purchase and use of IMSI catchers. IMSI catchers are surveillance tools which mimic mobile phone towers, tricking phones into connecting with them and revealing personal informa

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd, also known as Emma’s Diary, £140,000 for illegally collecting and selling personal information belonging to more than one million people. The data broking company, which provides advice

The Data Protection Commissioner has launched an investigation into whether Facebook is breaching the GDPR by failing to fulfil requests to hand over information it collects about users' web browsing. The social media giant collects information about other websites that Facebook users access using a

Two men who allegedly went on a bin-stealing spree have been caught by police. Kenneth Brooks, 50, and Nicola Weydeveld, 19, were spotted by a security guard with a suspicious number of rubbish bins.

A woman whose Article 40 Inquiry into the lawfulness of her detention was rendered moot has lost her application for costs. The woman and her family had been residing in the State under derived residence rights due to her husband’s EU citizenship but had failed to comply with the European Comm

Michael Donnellan, director-general of the Irish Prison Service, has announced that he will be stepping down at the end of November. Mr Donnellan was re-appointed to the post last January for a second five-year term, but will now depart on 30 November 2018.

A magistrate who provided a character reference for a defendant in a criminal case in which he was involved has been reprimanded. Zahur Akhtar, of the Black Country Bench, is among seven magistrates and judges to be disciplined or face disqualification in the past month, The Times reports.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Edinburgh-headquartered Tesco Bank £16,400,000 for “failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence in protecting its personal current account holders against a cyber attack” following the major assault on its sy

Personal injury and road traffic specialists JMK Solicitors have reported record levels of business in their 15th year of practice. The Belfast- and Newry-based firm has grown its staff by 20 per cent since January to a headcount of nearly 60.

Ballaghaderreen solicitor Declan O'Callaghan has paid €395,000 to the client account of his former law firm in the latest chapter of a long-running dispute over funds, The Irish Times reports. Mr O'Callaghan was ordered in July not to practise as a solicitor pending the outcome of Solicitors Di