Stephen Cook reports: The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into the National Bullying Helpline because of concerns about the charity’s protection of confidential information and its referral of callers to a business connected with one of the trustees. The helpline has been at the centre of the row about alleged bullying by the…
Month: February 2010
UK: BT could face criminal case over Phorm trials
Chris Williams reports: The Crown Prosecution Service has revealed that it is working with a top barrister on a potential criminal case against BT over its secret trials of Phorm’s targeted advertising system. Almost two years to the day since we revealed BT had covertly intercepted and profiled the web browsing habits of tens of…
UK: Privacy watchdog will investigate day-to-day surveillance for Parliamentary report
Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will report to Parliament later this year on the degree to which UK citizens are put under surveillance. The study will be a follow up to a previous ICO report which said that citizens were at risk from growing pressure in Government to share information between departments and…
FTC Issues Report of 2009 Top Consumer Complaints
The Federal Trade Commission today released a report listing top complaints consumers filed with the agency in 2009. It shows that while identity theft remains the top complaint category, identity theft complaints declined 5 percentage points from 2008. The FTC is releasing a new animated video showing how people can file a complaint, and offers…