“Europe’s top rights court ruled against the government on Tuesday for intercepting telephone calls between British and Irish rights groups and their clients, violating their right to privacy.”
Reuters, 1st July 2008
Source: www.reuters.com
“GCap, the commercial radio group behind Capital 95.8 and Classic FM, has been fined a record £1.1 million by Ofcom, the media regulator, for manipulating phone-in quizzes to stop prizes from being won too quickly. ”
The Times, 26th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Britain’s biggest credit card company faces being fined by the telecoms watchdog for making ‘annoying’ silent calls to people’s homes, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 24th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has criticised proposals to build one Government-owned database to hold a log of phone calls, email and internet use in the UK. The ICO has said that the move would be unjustified.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th May 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.”
The Times, 20th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Media watchdog Ofcom fined commercial broadcaster ITV a record 5.68 million pounds on Thursday for cheating viewers over phone-in competitions on some of its most popular shows.”
Reuters, 8th May 2008
Source: www.reuters.com
“The media watchdog Ofcom plans to record a damning verdict and hand down a record seven-figure fine after a six-month investigation into premium phone line deception on some of ITV’s biggest shows.”
The Guardian, 29th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government has refused to investigate BT’s covert wiretapping of thousands of its customers in 2006 and 2007, despite its own expert’s view that without consent Phorm’s advertising targeting technology is a breach of criminal law.”
The Register, 17th April 2008
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
“The privacy watchdog for EU institutions has called for a planned requirement for telecoms companies to publish details of information security breaches to be extended to banks, businesses and medical bodies.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ofcom has failed to prevent the publication of its searchable database of mobile phone mast locations after the High Court backed a ruling by the Information Commissioner.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Traders in financial markets will have to record phone transactions and keep the recordings for six months, financial regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has ordered.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th March 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The wife of a city executive cost her husband £11,000 after she downloaded four episodes of the sitcom Friends through his mobile phone while abroad.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Telephone companies should stop landing their customers with ‘unfair’ charges, the industry regulator announced yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Broadcasters face unannounced spot checks on their operation of premium rate phone lines as part of a clampdown by regulators.”
The Guardian, 20th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Europe’s mobile phone operators are joining forces to obstruct access to child sexual abuse websites. Leading operators, including Vodafone, Orange and 3, will announce plans today to install technology in their networks that will bar access to thousands of blacklisted sites.”
The Times, 11th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Dozens of prisoners in British jails are routinely under covert electronic surveillance, security sources told The Times last night.”
The Times, 5th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Up to £20 billion-worth of radio spectrum will be released on to the open markets because of a decision by Ofcom to allow public sector bodies including the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to trade or sell their allocated spectrum.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th February 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Bugging devices planted in a prison telephone were illegally used to record privileged conversations between an inmate and his solicitor, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 5th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Despite press reports to the contrary, public authorities tapped just 1,435 phones and not 250,000 in a nine month period in 2006. The larger figure includes less heavily regulated requests for information about phone usage.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th January 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Record labels and film studios cannot demand that telecoms companies reveal the personal details of people suspected of swapping copyrighted material on the internet, the European Court of Justice ruled yesterday.”
The Times, 30th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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