A serial rapist who is seeking court orders restraining publication of his address following his release from prison last year has told the High Court he does not want to cause trouble and simply wishes “to continue my rehabilitation, to live my life and hopefully integrate back into society”. He said the newspapers had been…
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Google Faces German Deadline on Street View Data (Update1)
Kristen Schweizer and Claudia Rach report: Google Inc., the owner of the world’s largest search engine, was asked by Germany to provide details by May 26 on data it erroneously gathered for the Street View mapping service, deepening its European woes. “We need to see the used software to understand what was really saved,” Johannes…
Confidential papers ‘found outside police station’
Daniel Binns reports: A probe has been launched after confidential documents about a harassment investigation were apparently found on the pavement outside Loughton Police Station and then posted by a resident to all the people involved. The nine pages, which contain information about a case in which a man allegedly pestered his ex-partner with repeated…
Cops back in on BT/Phorm case
Chris Williams reports: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has called in City of London Police to assist as it decides whether to go to court over BT’s covert trials of Phorm’s web interception and profiling system. The City force ran the original criminal investigation into the trials, which saw tens of thousands of BT customers’…