Oakwood and Drake Hall prison inmates paid to work in call centres – BBC News
“Convicted criminals in the West Midlands are being paid to work in call centres.”
BBC News, 21st August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: telecommunications
Privacy International to challenge telecoms firms over GCHQ cooperation – The Guardian
“BT and Vodafone are among seven large telecoms firms which could be pulled into a legal challenge under human rights law for cooperating with GCHQ’s large-scale internet surveillance programs.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Premium rate customer service phone lines to be banned – Daily Telegraph
“Premium rate customer service phone lines are to be banned in a Government crackdown, but banks, train operators and airlines have been let off the hook by ministers.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd and others – WLR Daily
Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd and others [2013] EWHC 2119 (Ch); [2013] WLR (D) 314
“The well established requirement for disclosure under Norwich Pharmacal principles for a party from whom disclosure was sought to be “involved” in or to have “facilitated” wrongdoing was too narrow and the court should ask itself whether the party was a mere witness or whether its engagement with the wrongdoing was sufficient to make it more than a mere witness and susceptible to the court’s jurisdiction to order disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regulators call for unprecedented nuisance call review – Daily Telegraphuk
“An unprecedented review of the agency set up to help households block nuisance calls has been launched by regulators.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of abusive electronic message cases reach court – BBC News
“More than 1,700 cases involving abusive messages sent online or via text message reached English and Welsh courts in 2012, the BBC has learned after a Freedom of Information request.”
BBC News, 30th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
20 law firms implicated in ‘secret’ phone hacking scandal – Daily Telegraph
“Lawyers were the biggest users of the private investigators behind the ‘secret’ phone-hacking scandal, it has been revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Benedetti v Sawiris and others – WLR Daily
Benedetti v Sawiris and others [2013] UKSC 50; [2013] WLR (D) 286
“A restitutionary award made on the basis of unjust enrichment where the benefit was in the form of services was normally to be assessed by reference to the objective market value of the services, tested by the price which a reasonable person in the defendant’s position would have had to pay for the services, and taking into account conditions which increased or decreased the objective value of the benefit to any reasonable person in that position.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Six people falsely accused of crimes after errors in internet data disclosure – The Guardian
“Six people have been wrongly detained and falsely accused of crimes in the past year as a result of mistakes made in the official disclosure of confidential data on their internet use to the police and security services.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Benedetti (Appellant) v Sawiris and others (Respondents) – Supreme Court
Benedetti (Appellant) v Sawiris and others (Respondents) [2013] UKSC 50 | UKSC 2011/0087 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 17th July 2013
Royal Mail worker jailed for terrorism offences – Daily Telegraph
“A man with links to radical Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary has been jailed for two years for terrorism offences.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Privacy campaigners demand review of snooping laws – The Guardian
“Seven of the UK’s leading human rights groups and privacy campaigners have demanded an urgent review of the laws being used to authorise the mass collection and analysis of data by Britain’s spy centre, GCHQ.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Nuisance calls: stronger powers sought for earlier intervention – The Guardian
“As the Information Commissioner’s Office fines Tameside Energy Services £45,000 for unwanted calls, it demands a simplification of the rules around punishment.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Woman won harrassment case against ‘bullying bank’ – Daily Telegraph
“A woman has won a case of harassment against her bank after she was plagued by more than 500 calls for missing a single loan payment.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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Cab driver falsely accused of rape saved by his phone app – Daily Telegraph
“A woman who falsely accused a taxi driver of a knifepoint sex attack has been
jailed after he exposed her lies using an app on his mobile phone.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Daily Telegraph have recently introduced a limited paywall. Users will be permitted to view 20 Daily Telegraph articles per month for free, after which they will need to pay a subscription fee to access content.
Mobile phone insurance complaints firm fined by FCA – BBC News
“A firm which deals with complaints for Phones 4U has been fined £2.8m for wide-ranging failures in dealing with gripes about mobile insurance policies.”
BBC News, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Edmondson; Regina v Weatherup; Regina v Brooks; Regina v Coulson; Regina v Kuttner – WLR Daily
“A voicemail message which had been received by the intended recipient and subsequently stored in the telecommunications system of the network provider so that the intended recipient might thereafter have continued access to it by playing back the message, remained “in the course of transmission”. The interception of such a voicemail message intentionally and without lawful authority was therefore an offence contrary to section 1 of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.”
WLR Daily, 28th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
RIPA: hacked voicemails and undercover officers – Panopticon
“The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) has featured prominently in the news in recent weeks, both as regards undercover police officers/’covert human intelligence sources’ and as regards the phone-hacking scandal.”
Panopticon, 28th June 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
Ofcom to investigate BT for over-charging Anytime customers – The Guardian
“BT has been accused of over-charging its customers – possibly by millions of pounds – after adding an extra 1p to the cost of calls to mobiles for some customers on its most popular package.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Phone hacking: Go-ahead for Brooks and Coulson cases – BBC News
“Five former News of the World staff members, including ex-editors Rebekah Brooks
and Andy Coulson, have lost a legal attempt to block their prosecution on phone
hacking charges.”
BBC News, 28th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
