ICO seizes covert database of construction industry workers
An obscure midlands firm was raided last week by the Information Commissioner and has resulted in 40 leading firms now facing investigation because they bought and used illegal data from this company. As a result those companies reputations' are now as muddy as one of their construction sites and almost certainly not because the individuals who sanctioned it knew it was wrong, but rather because they didn't know or didn't care. 

BT is facing an investigation by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over allegations that its trials of the targeted online advertising system  from Phorm contravened privacy laws.

The CPS is investigating whether tests of the Phorm service by BT in 2006 and 2007, where BT did not ask customers' permission before running the tests, broke  the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which prohibits the interception of online data without consent.