“The man convicted of ‘menace’ for threatening to blow up an airport in a Twitter joke has lost his appeal. Paul Chambers, a 27-year-old accountant whose online courtship with another user of the microblogging site led to the ‘foolish prank’, had hoped that a crown court would dismiss his conviction and £1,000 fine without a full hearing.”
The Guardian, 11th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“BT and TalkTalk today (10 November) won the right to a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act, throwing controversial government proposals to tackle illegal filesharing into uncertainty.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of men who say they were wrongly accused of child pornography offences could have their names cleared after a case to be heard in the court of appeal tomorrow.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s intellectual property laws are to be reviewed to ‘make them fit for the internet age,’ prime minister David Cameron has announced.”
BBC News, 4th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A married clergyman was ordered to register as a sex offender today after being convicted of repeatedly viewing pornographic images of children on the internet.”
The Independent, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Ministry of Sound is suspending plans to send warning notices to more than 25,000 BT broadband customers suspected of illegal downloading, claiming that the internet service provider has deleted their details.”
The Guardian, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Google breached UK data laws in its collection of personal data via Street View cars, the UK’s Information Commissioner has said.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A UK Government minister has proposed the creation of a mediation service for people who think their right to privacy has been violated on the internet. The mediation could result in the removal of material, Ed Vaizey said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st November 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“An ‘internet troll’ who posted obscene messages on Facebook sites set up in memory of dead people has been jailed.”
BBC News, 29th October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The UK information commissioner was prevented from taking stronger action against Google earlier this year after its Street View cars collected sensitive Wi-Fi because the Data Protection Act at the time limited his powers.”
The Guardian, 28th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“For the first time, numbers relating to the MAPPA status and management levels of all MAPPA offenders living in England and Wales can now be viewed online.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th October 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The UK privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Google after it admitted copying household computer passwords and emails from unsecured wireless networks, when taking photographs for its Street View mapping service.”
The Guardian, 24th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, has delivered the Criminal Bar Association’s Kalisher lecture entitled ‘Contempt of Court: why it still matters’.”
Attorney General’s Office, 12th October 2010
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“The Attorney General has said that operators of websites should be responsible for comments made by visitors to their sites that prejudice trials. Dominic Grieve said that he wants ‘further discussions’ on site owners’ liability.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th October 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“The attorney general has dismissed calls to scrap laws that prevent publication of prejudicial information about unconvicted defendants.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A second High Court judge has issued an interim injunction banning the owner of the website Solicitors From Hell from publishing or republishing defamatory material about a lawyer with a London firm.”
The Independent, 5th October 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Judges are ‘giving up’ trying to stop juries using Google, Facebook and Twitter to access potentially false and prejudicial information about defendants, Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, has warned.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A married deputy head teacher was today jailed for seven years for encouraging and watching the rape of a three-year-old girl.”
The Independent, 4th October 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“BT has today been granted a stay of execution in its bid to challenge attempts of rights holders to obtain personal details about customers without convincing evidence of illicit file sharing.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Law firms will continue to pursue those suspected of piracy and illegal filesharing, despite the ACS:Law data breach scandal.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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