Ironists rejoice: United Kingdom law firm ACS:Law—a data-protection boutique that tracks down alleged illegal file sharers on behalf of clients that include pornographers—faces a potential £500,000 ($790,000) fine for failing to protect data.
The government’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the Information Commissioner’s Office, a privacy watchdog group, are investigating whether ACS violated the country’s Data Protection Act by allowing personal data it had gathered on more than 5,000 alleged porn-sharers to be spread online.
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