#confidential-information

#confidential-information

A Dublin garda has been charged with perverting the course of justice and unlawfully disclosing confidential information about the death of a person to a third party. The officer, in his 30s, appeared at Dublin District Court, where Judge Treasa Kelly acceded to a request from defence solicitor Padraig O'Donovan to impose reporting restrictions on his client's identity and address being published.

HMRC has revealed that hundreds of staff have accessed the records of taxpayers without permission or breached security in other ways. HMRC dismissed 50 members of staff last year for accessing or risking the exposure of taxpayers' records.