Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Powered by Max Banner Ads Hugh Grant has played some ridiculous parts and spoken some bad lines in his acting career. But surely none can top his performance of the past week. Grant has attempted to cast himself, the press-bashing Hacked Off lobby he fronts and Lord Justice Leveson as the people ‘who really care for freedom of expression in this country’, and claimed credit for a ‘victory for press freedom’ over police use of anti-terror laws to hack into journalists’ phone records. In the words of one of the tabloid hacks whose freedom Grant, Leveson and Co have spent years trying to curb: ‘You could not make it up.’ Protests over the scandal of police using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) secretly to hack into journalists’ phone records, in order to hunt down confidential sources and whistleblowers, has been escalating for months. The government has now announced that it will, after all, introduce ‘interim measures’ to put a stop to this practice before the General Election in May. Under the new rules police will have to follow procedures set out in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), go to court and obtain the permission of a judge […]
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