The extraordinary story of how Lisbon council furnished the Russian embassy with personal details (including telephone numbers and addresses) of activists who mounted a protest against Russia’s imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has developed in spite of attempts to play the whole episode down. Specialists in data protection laws stress the council faces a ‘multi-million’ euro fine for breaking the law. The worst of this story is what was initially presented as a ‘one-off lapse’ has actually been found to be ‘endemic practice’: the council is understood to have shared the personal details of activists involved in mounting protests outside the embassies of China and Venezuela as well.
Lisbon council faces ‘multi-million fine’ for sharing personal data with Russians
