The Labour Party asked today whether it would be the Prime Minister or PN General Secretary Paul Borg Olivier who would shoulder responsibility for an 'attempt to violate people's right to privacy'.

The party was commenting on the decision by the Data Protection Commissioner, announced yesterday, where the commissioner warned that there would have been serious consequences on the right to privacy of individuals had a plan been implemented for the transmission to a central source in the Office of the Prime Minister, of the personal information of those people who complained to ministries or parliamentary secretariats.

The plan was revealed a year ago in an e-mail which PN General Secretary Paul Borg Olivier mistakenly sent to then PL General Secretary Jason Micallef instead of Parliamentary Secretary Jason Azzopardi. It was also copied to ministers, parliamentary secretaries, and senior PN officials.

The PL said the conclusion reached by the Data Protection Commissioner was of the utmost seriousness. The Commissioner had found that Paul Borg Olivier had wanted to to operate a system which would have violated the law, the PL said.

This was a very serious conclusion which also placed responsibility on Dr Gonzi as leader of the PN, the PL said.

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