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Zarah Sultana\u2019s unauthorised launch of a Your Party membership portal may have been \u201cserious criminal activity\u201d and should be referred to the police, the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) has advised.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s Peace and Justice Project (PJP), which referred Your Party to the information watchdog last September over a potential data breach, has been advised by the ICO that it should consider \u201ctaking further action\u201d regarding the matter, after deciding it was not a matter for them.<\/p>\n
An extraordinary split opened up between Corbyn and Sultana in September after an email was sent to 800,000 people on Your Party\u2019s mailing list, urging them to become paying members for \u00a355. Sultana revealed the new membership portal on X, urging supporters to \u201cbe a part of history\u201d, and reassured her followers that the membership site was \u201csafe and secure\u201d, encouraging them to keep trying to sign up despite \u201cissues due to such high traffic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Later the same day, Corbyn issued an \u201curgent message\u201d telling his followers on X to ignore the \u201cunauthorised\u201d site and said \u201clegal advice is being taken\u201d.<\/p>\n
After the referral to the ICO, the information watchdog advised Corbyn\u2019s PJP, the data controller for Your Party, that it was not a matter for the ICO at this stage. The guidance, first reported by the New Statesman, advised the PJP to consider going to Action Fraud, now known as Report Fraud, and the police to determine whether the issue constituted criminal activity.<\/p>\n
The advice noted that as \u201cserious criminal activity may have occurred\u201d, any police investigation would take primacy over one by the ICO at this stage.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the ICO said: \u201cAfter reviewing the information provided, we have assessed that formal ICO involvement is not required at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday Sultana issued a statement which said the ICO had \u201cdropped the case around the Your Party membership portal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Writing on X on Friday, Sultana said: \u201cI always anticipated that this inquiry would conclude with no further action and I am pleased that everyone can now draw a line under the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sultana said she was looking forward to campaigning for the party\u2019s forthcoming formal collective leadership contest which would break \u201cdecisively from Labour right tactics, gives power to members and local branches, and helps build a mass movement for socialism\u201d.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI will continue working closely with Jeremy and comrades across the movement to build on our 60,000 members \u2013 the largest socialist party in the UK since the 1940s. Let\u2019s get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Your Party declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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