To tweet or not to tweet… Twitter raises important issues about privacy, free speech, censorship as well as individual rights and responsibilities. Of course, there is nothing stopping a person from self-incriminating themselves by tweets revealing illegal conduct such as the reports of a doctor on sick leave. How Can A Tweet Lead to Prosecution? […]
Budget Constraints in Legal System Reduce the Quality of Evidence that Appears Before the Courts
Almost monthly the news includes a press release from CEOP or the National Crime Agency relating to unlawful images and the individuals attempting to find such material. The Government has also recently publicised a policy in which Service Providers automatically block the ability for the user to access pornographic websites under the proviso that, rightly […]
In a Changing World New Evidence Brings New Challenges
According to sources, pornography accounts for 68 million daily Internet searches (25% of all Internet searches), 12% of websites and 1.5 billion downloads a month. The sheer volume of people seeking such material is surprising. However, computers are a discreet, cheap and relatively effective method of accessing such material. The Internet allows users to freely […]