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Web terrorism: fact or fiction
Posted on 15 Jul 2009 at 16:04
The damage caused by the assumption that all electronic evidence is solid is well documented, not least by PC Pro. In 2005, we revealed how computer evidence used against 7,272 UK citizens accused of being paedophiles was flawed. It was later withdrawn, but the death toll of those who had killed themselves under the pressure of the investigations in Operation Ore reached at least 39.
Such potential for miscarriages of justice are precisely the reason many leading civil rights campaigners are left wondering who has the most to fear from the Government's data harvesting: the terrorists or us?
Author: Stewart Mitchell
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