Labour's Casual Regard for Privacy

While in government Labour have lost thousands of gigabytes of data be it secret military inteligence or the personal details of thousands of citizans. It will come as no surprise that at party level they have an almost piss-taking attitude toward the Data Protection Act. Sites like

Ed's Pledge

and

Back the Ban

are nothing more than email address harvesting exercise.

Greg Hands is clearly enjoying his new role as the Tories attack dog. He seems to have been charged with going after Blair and he's doing rather well at it. In a

long piece on ConHome

he unravels how by signing up to receive email updates from Downing Street in 2007, his data was transferred through Tony Blair's murky business and charity dealings and finally ended up in the hands of the Labour Party. This being a breach of not only Data Protection Laws but also highlights some intriguing questions about Blair's charities and their connections to his business interests and the Labour Party.

Read Hand's excellent investigation

here

.