Interior Ministry to launch internal inquiry into personal data leak

The Ministry of the Interior is planning to carry out an internal inquiry to ascertain whether there has been a breach of privacy laws that allowed a candidate for the ruling conservative party in the upcoming European parliamentary elections to send hundreds of Greeks abroad campaign material to their private email accounts.

"We will not allow any shadows in this matter," Interior Minister Niki Kerameus told state broadcaster ERT on Tuesday, announcing the probe, which would seek to investigate whether her ministry was in any way involved in giving Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, an MEP with ruling New Democracy, voters' private email addresses without their consent, as required by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

"Our goal is to ascertain and confirm the adequacy of the security of personal data protection processes," she said, after opposition parties on...