Lancashire police fined after losing data on vulnerable girl

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Police force must pay £70,000 fine after details of a missing girl were found in the street

Lancashire Constabulary today became the first police force in England and Wales to have a fine slapped on it by the UK's data privacy watchdog following a major breach in data security. The Inf...

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