The Data Protection Commissioner had dismissed a case filed against PN General Secretary Paul Borg Olivier by PL leader Joseph Muscat over the handling of complaints made to government officials.

Dr Muscat had claimed violation of Data Protection in an e-mail by Dr Borg Olivier on customer care which could be given to people complaining to government officials.

The PN in a statement said the Data Protection Commissioner had concluded that there had been no processing of personal data and therefore the data protection law was not broken.

The PN said this decision proved the falsity of months of mudslinging by Dr Muscat against Dr Borg Olivier and officials of the Office of the Prime Minister.

Dr Muscat had filed his case with the Data Protection Office on December 4 last year.

He had said that Dr Borg Olivier had written to ministries asking them to forward details on the persons submitting requests and complaints to the government. The e-mail was also mistakenly sent to then PL General Secretary Jason Micallef.

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