Interception of communications watchdog reports 20% increase in errors, largely made by police and security services, leading to 17 wrongful arrests Seventeen people were wrongfully arrested or had their homes searched last year as a result of serious errors made by the police and security services after they had accessed confidential web and phone data, an official watchdog has revealed. More than 760,000 items of communications data, which track an individual's phone and web use, were acquired...
Public bodies made 1,119 errors in use of phone and web data in 2015
The Guardian - 8 Sep 2016 15:34
Interception of communications watchdog reports 20% increase in errors, largely made by police and security services, leading to 17 wrongful arrests Seventeen people were wrongfully arrested or had their homes searched last year as a result of serious errors made by the police and security services after they had accessed confidential web and phone data, an official watchdog has revealed. More than 760,000 items of communications data, which track an individual's phone and web use, were acquired...
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