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UK: Charities could be 'silenced' by data protection law, warns lawyer

24 March 2014

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"London-based environmental NGO, Global Witness, has been taken to court by BSG Resources (BSGR) Ltd accused of breaching the 1998 Data Protection Act after a number of press releases sent by the organisation claimed that BSGR used bribery to obtain mining rights in an iron ore reserve in Guinea, West Africa. BSGR denies the allegations."

See the story: Charities could be 'silenced' by data protection law, warns lawyer (Civil Society.org, link)

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