Former Post Office, CEO Paula Vennells, asked her husband for advice on words to use to downplay tech problems #PostOfficeScandal #PostOfficeInquiry computerweekly.com/news/366581954…

.Alison McDermott - She/her tribunal appeal hears claims of metadata tampering in letters submitted to court by Europe's biggest nuclear site.

Sellafield and its regulator, the NDA, are pursuing her for £40,000 in costs.

Story with Williamrt for ComputerWeekly

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New - Former Sellafield consultant claims the nuclear complex tampered with evidence computerweekly.com/news/366581793… via @computerweekly #evidence #metadata #disclosure

Essential reading on European moves to curb encryption and what lies behind it.

“Our societies have not previously tolerated spaces that are beyond the reach of law enforcement [mass surveillance]” seems like a more complete statement. But can you imagine the Orwellian dystopia we’d live in if the statement was true?

ICYMI :European police chiefs call for curbs on end-to-end encryption
👉Meta under fire
👉Online Safety Act and Investigatory Powers Act could be used to weaken encryption
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New - Crime agency crticises Meta as European police chiefs call for curbs on end-to-end encryption computerweekly.com/news/366581692… via @computerweekly #e2ee #encryption #lawfulaccess #crime

Updated - Report reveals Northern Ireland police put up to 18 journalists and lawyers under surveillance
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Extraordinary- PSNI involved in 18 incidents of surveillance on journalists and legal professionals. Trevor Birney barry mccaffrey #achtanois #AnDreamDearg KRW Law Human Rights

International police operation infiltrates LabHost phishing website used by thousands of criminals bit.ly/3xGOoM5

An ‘incredulous’ Trudi Warner arrives at court for hearing to see if the High Court gives the attorney general permission to prosecute her for contempt of court - for holding a sign telling jurors that they can acquit climate change protesters according to their conscience.

We debate this on Monday 22 April

Lords to challenge controversial DWP benefits bank account surveillance powers computerweekly.com/news/366581392… via @computerweekly #surveillance #benefits DWP Maeve Sherlock David Anderson Silkie Carlo

The US letter on #Assange assurances posted by NYTimes reporter Megan Specia
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Latest - Extradition takes a step closer as US provides assurances over treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange computerweekly.com/news/366581083… via @computerweekly

BREAKING:

“The United States has issued a non-assurance in relation to the First Amendment, and a standard assurance in relation to the death penalty. It makes no undertaking to withdraw the prosecution's previous assertion that Julian has no First Amendment rights because he

Important that a date secured for this hearing, after claim was submitted in 2019.

A law firm that routinely advises NHS bosses will contest claims it withheld key contracts it'd been paid to draft for 3-4 years in landmark case

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This plaque - last line: 'the Right of Juries to give their Verdict according to their Convictions' - is on the wall of the Old Bailey. But write that on a piece of cardboard today and stand outside a court and you may be sent to jail. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

SLAPPs As drafted, the bill requires the judge to assess the claimant’s intention; the proposed amendment would change the test to whether the claimant’s behaviour “can be reasonably understood as having, or as being intended to have” certain consequences. legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/la…