22/12/2012   Government fails to curb power of the press

Hacked Off’s campaign to adopt the Leveson Report is boosted by latest News of the World settlement, while Murdoch’s US presidential coup is foiled. Tell the politicians to support the victims of press abuse.

 03/12/2012   Police evidence to Draft Comms Data Bill "misleading"

5 out of 6 cases supporting the “snooper’s charter” or Draft Communications Data Bill give no plausible need for “prior blanket retention of the entire nation’s traffic and location data”, writes Caspar Bowden. In one case cited a corrupt police officer accessed data leading to a double murder.