A Scottish man pleaded guilty today (Friday 22 October) to Computer Misuse charges in connection with an international operation. The joint investigation by Metropolitan Police and the Finnish authorities began in 2006 into an organized group carrying out a sophisticated e-crime by writing new computer viruses that could by-pass anti-virus products. Tens of thousands of…
Category: Non-U.S.
The ICO responds to my inquiry about CCTV retention and protection
Having become totally confused trying to figure out how the U.K.’s Data Protection Act applied to the security and data retention of CCTV surveillance, I wrote to the ICO to ask. Today I received a response. Here’s the relevant portion of it: The fifth principle of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act) states that:…
UK: Council uses ‘snooping’ law surveillance to good effect
There’s been a lot of negative press concerning how councils use the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to snoop on people. John Crossley reports on how South Derbyshire District Council has used RIPA. A used a controversial ‘snooping’ law four times in the last six months…. The authority used it three times to…
In the U.K., your home is your castle – subject to squatters?
Ralph Miller and Benedict Moore-Bridger report: A hotelier who moved out of his house for a week while it was being renovated has been left homeless after Italian squatters took it over. Connan Gupta, 40, who had been staying with his sister, returned to find 10 unwelcome visitors at his £700,000, five-bedroom home in Camberwell….