The UK’s information watchdog has fined the Police Service of Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) and issued a Reprimand for “serious failures in the handling of sensitive personal information.”
The enforcement action relates to an incident in 2021, where the police accessed and downloaded the entire contents of an individual’s phone after the person
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