CPS to consider private prosecution over stealth Phorm trials
The Crown Prosecution Service will examine evidence that BT and Phorm’s stealth advertising targeting trials broke wiretapping laws, despite a recent police refusal to pass the case to prosecutors. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions told campaigner Alex Hanff that a private prosecution under section one of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) is possible. … If the Director of Public Prosecutions does grant consent to prosecute, the CPS will take over handling of the case. His Office wrote: “It may also be necessary for them to liaise with the City of London police to determine whether there are any other avenues of investigation which can reasonably be pursued.”
Source: The Register
