Police legal advice says there is full RIPA protection for unread spam (but no privacy protection for your confidential archive)
12 September 2010
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The voice-mail hacking incident is still exercising MPs – especially the Labour ones who did little to protect individual privacy in its decade in power (see last week’s blog). So when Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) gave evidence on “Specialist Operations” to the Home Affairs Select Committee (last week), MPs on the Committee took the opportunity to ask a range of questions about the lack of prosecutions re such hacking. Mr Yates’ answers reveal that
