Former AA mechanic who was off work with knee injury gets €5,000 data-breach damages after he was filmed pruning tree

After noticing a vehicle parked across the road, the mechanic saw his operations manager was recording him.

Ray Managh

A former AA mechanic who was filmed helping his mother-in-law to prune a garden tree while he was on sick leave has won damages for breach of his personal data rights.

Judge Jennifer O’Brien also directed Philip McCabe’s former employer to account for the loss, erasure or destruction of a mobile phone video of him taken by a member of AA Ireland Ltd management from a car parked across the road from his mother-in-law’s house.