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Renewed Investigations by Scotland Yard in 2011 led to dozens of arrests for activities related to the phone hacking scandal. This list of persons arrested in phone-hacking scandal is a chronological listing of individuals arrested in conjunction with the illegal acquisition of confidential information by employees and other agents of news media companies referred to as the "phone hacking ...
In the UK, 20,000 mobile phones and sim cards were recovered as prison contraband in 2016. In 2017, a prison in Bristol added telephones and computers which were not connected to the internet into the prison cells in an attempt to combat illegal mobile phone usage. [24] [25] The UK Parliament passed a law which would allow mobile phone ...
Legitimate sites are regularly blocked by the filters of some UK ISPs and mobile operators. [40] In December 2013 the UK Council for Child Internet Safety met with ISPs, charities, representatives from government, the BBFC and mobile phone operators to seek ways to reduce the blocking of educational advice for young people. In January 2014 ...
If the matter is heard at court, the fine for illegal mobile phone/device use can be as much as $1,849. Western Australia – The fine for touching or holding a mobile phone while not in a cradle to make, receive or end a voice call is $500 and 3 demerit points. Creating, sending, or looking at a text, email, social media, photo, video or ...
The UK openly blocks child pornography websites, for which ONI does not test. [99] 98.6% of UK internet traffic consume a service called the child abuse image content list which uses data provided by the Internet Watch Foundation to identify pages judged to contain indecent photographs of children.
Hundreds of illegal cellphones that South Carolina officials say can be used to coordinate criminal activity in prison have been successfully disabled by state prison officials in two months.
UK mobile phone operators began filtering Internet content in 2004 [9] when Ofcom published a "UK code of practice for the self-regulation of new forms of content on mobiles". [107] This provided a means of classifying mobile Internet content to enable consistency in filtering. All major UK operators now voluntarily filter content by default.
Before public outrage forced rigorous investigations, evidence that several thousand UK citizens including celebrities, Members of Parliament, murder victims, their relatives, or anyone else who happened to be nearby, had been victims of phone hacking remained for many years consigned unexamined by officers of the Metropolitan Police Service to ...