Custodial offence for deliberate invasion of data protection? Forget it!
6 September 2010
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I must confess that I find it rich that New Labour Ministers, who were in Government for more than a decade, are now huffing and puffing about their “phone inboxes being hacked”. The sad truth is that, in Government, they could have done a great deal to protect individual privacy by making such hacking a custodial offence. In short, they failed to implement an offence that would have extended to a very large number of situations – well beyond the difficult issue of
