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UK: Innocent people treated as paedophiles after snooping blunders

Posted on July 16, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Tom Whitehead reports:

Innocent people were wrongly investigated as suspected paedophiles, including one who was arrested, because of snooping blunders by police and internet companies.

Five people had their homes searched and computers seized last year after errors in requests for email and phone records meant they were wrongly targeted, a watchdog has revealed.

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