Hacking has become a wearisome subject, but it's in the news nearly every day and doesn't look like going away. One thing I've yet to read is what law is being broken - presumably there is a statutory Act and Secton. What are offenders actually charged with? Can anyone enlighten me please.
The Interception of Communications Act 1985 has mostly been repealed by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the bit that remains deals with disclosure of messages by persons running the telecommunications system.
Offences of unlawful interception by persons not running the telecommunications system is covered by RIPA 2000...
Hacking is a non crime as far as I'm concerned. We each have the right to each others information. If you don't want it known, do you have something to hide?
The biggest crime of all are the ludicrious payments being made to 'victims'.
No we do not have the ' right' to each other's personal information- people have a ' right' to privacy- or perhaps you'd enjopy it if I installed a webcam in each room of your house?
Seems to me that law is strangely named. This so called phone hacking doesn't seem to be intercepting, since the voice message has already been delivered to the intended receiver, i.e. the voice mailbox; so it is no longer on route.