Inform’s Blog has an entry discussing the UK tabloids’ coverage of yet another sex scandal involving a sports figure. I’ll skip the rehash of coverage and links to the tabloid coverage they critique to cut to their main point about the Press Complaints Commission (PCC): The breaches of the PCC Code relating to privacy are…
Category: Non-U.S.
Phone hacking: MPs to question Andy Coulson and Scotland Yard
Nicholas Watt and Afua Hirsch report: Scotland Yard and News International were tonight facing further parliamentary pressure over the News of the World phone hacking scandal as a Commons committee announced a fresh inquiry into the affair. As police confirmed that Andy Coulson would be questioned following new allegations in the New York Times suggesting he knew about…
Would the UK public really support CCTV if they knew more?
CCTV Core presents the results of a self-serving survey, here, while Big Brother Watch answers them, here. As BBW notes, the CCTV Core article on the survey fails to disclose the survey’s methods: how many people were surveyed and how were they recruited? Nor does the survey distinguish between belief and fact. Did the survey…
UK: DVLA says council snoopers are free to take the WEE
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: Government officials hit back at accusations last week that they were encouraging councils to break the law and snoop on local residents, claiming instead that not only are they entitled to do so, but that they are required to by law. A report in last week’s Sunday Express pillories local councils…