This week on CrowdJustice, motorbike riders are challenging the ban on access to the Stonehenge area, a London Black Cab driver is seeking to secure his basic workers’ rights against MyTaxi and privacy campaigners are opposing the controversial age-verification measure for adult websites.
“Heads should roll”
…that’s what Jolyon Maugham QC, Director of the Good Law Project, said after the High Court found that the Electoral Commission unlawfully gave permission to Vote Leave to spend more than Parliament had allowed. Vote Leave spent almost £500,000 over the £7 million referendum limit. The action was funded on CrowdJustice.
Email surveillance
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the UK’s mass interception programmes allowing untargeted surveillance of people’s emails and internet use breaches individuals’ rights to privacy, writes the Times. Liberty had previously crowdfunded its UK challenge of the Investigatory Powers Act on CrowdJustice.
Cyber security
Dutch news reports that Russian spies detained in the Hague were planning a break-in at the Spiez laboratory, which is the designated hub of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Apparently the two men who are thought to working for the Russian intelligence service GROe, had equipment in their possession which would allow them to break into the computer system of the laboratory.
Meanwhile it apparently took hackers just 22 lines of code to expose 380,000 BA customers' payment details, according to TNW. RiskIQ speculated that a group called Magecart – which was also responsible for the Ticketmaster UK hacker earlier this year – was behind this attack too.
You couldn’t make it up
It’s not every day that a dog saves a man from a prison term. But that’s what happened in the US – when a dead labrador who was a crucial part of the testimony against the man turned out to be alive, reports the BBC. An Oregon non-profit organisation, the Innocence Project, found the dog and saved 42-year-old Josh Horner from a 50-year prison term for child sex abuse.