‘Online retailers should ban the sale of miniature mobile phones designed to be smuggled into prisons, the justice secretary has said.’
BBC News, 17th November 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Eight people have been jailed for taking part in a plot to smuggle cannabis and mobile phones into prisons in England and Scotland using drones.’
The Guardian, 13th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The part-privatisation of the probation service has led to tens of thousands of offenders – up to 40% of the total – being supervised by telephone calls every six weeks instead of face-to-face meetings, the chief inspector of probation has revealed.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The House of Commons Work & Pensions committee has urged the government to accelerate plans to ban pensions cold calling and provide better guidance to pensioners on their options.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th December 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Investigatory Powers Act needs to be updated if it is to comply with EU law, the UK government has admitted.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st December 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Senior police officers are to lose the power to self-authorise access to personal phone and web browsing records under a series of late changes to the snooper’s charter law proposed by ministers in an attempt to comply with a European court ruling on Britain’s mass surveillance powers. A Home Office consultation paper published on Thursday also makes clear that the 250,000 requests each year for access to personal communications data by the police and other public bodies will in future be restricted to investigations into crimes that carry a prison sentence of at least six months.’
The Guardian, 30th November 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘More than 5 million people in the UK could be entitled to compensation from Google if a class action against the internet giant for allegedly harvesting personal data is successful. A group led by the former executive director of consumer body Which?, Richard Lloyd, and advised by City law firm Mischon de Reya claims Google unlawfully collected personal information by bypassing the default privacy settings on the iPhone between June 2011 and February 2012.’
The Guardian, 30th November 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Smartphones and social media are causing headaches for judges, a Court of Appeal judge has warned in a speech highlighting current challenges faced in jury trials.’
Law Society's Gazette, 27th November 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Broadband firms will no longer be able to advertise their fast net services based on the speeds just a few customers get, from May next year.’
BBC News, 23rd November 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A football agent has been convicted of killing a highways worker and paralysing another in a fatal crash as he texted players while speeding in bad weather.’
The Guardian, 7th November 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Police investigations into children sharing sexual images of themselves and others have more than doubled in two years, figures have shown.’
BBC News, 6th November 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘New rules regarding the rights and obligations that arise in relation to the deployment and maintenance of mobile phone masts and other telecoms infrastructure are “expected to take effect in December”, according to the UK government.’
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘In FRAND 8 Oct 2017 I discussed the terms upon which patents for inventions that are essential to a standard are licensed. I noted that courts around the world had held that those terms should be fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory – in other words, FRAND. The Court of Appeal’s decision in Koninklijke Philips N.V. v Asustek Computer Incorporation and Others [2017] EWCA Civ 1526 (11 Oct 2017) concerned the construction of a clause licensing such patents. It is important to note, however, that none of the judges who heard the appeal mentioned the acronym, FRAND, and it appeared only twice in the judgment of the trial judge.’
NIPC Law, 13th October 2017
Source: nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
‘A challenge to GCHQ’s use of non-specific warrants to authorise the bulk hacking of smartphones, computers and networks in the UK is starting at the court of appeal.
The case, brought by the campaign group Privacy International (PI), is the latest twist in a protracted battle about both the legality of bulk surveillance and the primacy of civil courts over an intelligence tribunal that operates partly in secret.’
The Guardian, 5th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ofcom chief executive Sharon White has defended the telecoms regulator’s decision to put a limit on the amount of mobile spectrum an operator can control, after legal action was launched by two companies.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd October 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A hit-and-run killer has had his jail term increased after he put posts on social media from inside prison.’
BBC News, 21st September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The publisher of the Sun and the defunct News of the World has settled 17 cases of phone hacking and illegally obtaining personal information, avoiding a high-profile court case.’
The Guardian, 7th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The use of cloud-based communications tools by employees of public sector bodies presents challenges over the way those organisations comply with freedom of information (FOI) laws in the UK, the information commissioner has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, September 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Jennifer Kotilaine, barrister of 3PB, reflects on the various ways in which the application of children law has adapted to the internet and social media and on the further adaptations that may lie ahead.’
Family Law Week, 17th August 2017
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A forthcoming ban on cold-callers who try to scam people out of their pension savings will include emails and texts, the government has announced.’
BBC News, 20th August 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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