IE: Insurer ordered to pay costs in data breach case

There’s been a ruling in a case mentioned previously on this blog:

Insurance company FBD has been ordered to pay High Court costs to a man following a case in which he claimed his data protection rights had been breached.

The High Court last week vacated the Circuit Court award of €15,000 in damages to Michael Collins in March 2012 but did rule that there had been a clear and intentional breach of data protection legislation as a result of FBD’s actions and awarded him costs in the case.

Read more on TheJournal.ie.