-OFFICE OF THE DATA PROTECTION REGISTRAR: Father and son guilty of breaching data protection act

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M2 PRESSWIRE-16 July 1998-OFFICE OF THE DATA PROTECTION REGISTRAR: Father and son guilty of breaching data protection act (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:150798 The Data Protection Registrar has successfully prosecuted a son, his father and his father's company. The investigation was undertaken with assistance from the National Westminster Bank.

Fines totalling GBP 8,000 and costs of GBP 1214.89 were imposed by Horseferry Magistrates Court on 9 July 1998. The Registrar was contacted by the National Westminster Bank after the bank became concerned about the searches which one of their employees was making on the bank's databases. It turned out that their employee, Noel Larbey, was providing information to his father, Michael Larbey, a private investigator....