Hacked Off

Hacked Off is a pressure group, representing the victims of the phone-hacking scandal, which leads the campaign for a free and accountable press and demands effective implementation of the Leveson Inquiry reform proposals.  Hugh Grant, the phone-hacking victim and actor, has been the campaign’s most prominent representative in the media.

http://hackinginquiry.org

Internet Watch Foundation

The Internet Watch Foundation is a UK hotline set up by the Internet industry to provide both the public and IT professionals with the means to report criminal online content in a secure and confidential way.

The IWF work in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, and international partners to minimise the availability of this content, specifically:

1. Child sexual abuse images hosted anywhere in the world.
2. Criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK.
3. Non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.

Over 100,000 URLs have been removed for containing criminal content since the organisation was set up in 1996.

http://www.iwf.org.uk/

The Leveson Inquiry

The Leveson Inquiry (2011) into the culture, practices and ethics of the press – set up by the Coalition Government in response to the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World – evidence, live streams of broadcasts, submissions etc. will appear on the site in due course.

Terms of reference for Judge-led Inquiry:

Part 1

To inquire into the culture, practices, and ethics of the press, including:

1. contacts and the relationships between national newspapers and politicians, and the conduct of each;
2. contacts and the relationship between the press and the police, and the conduct of each;
3. the extent to which the current policy and regulatory framework has failed including in relation to data protection; and
4. the extent to which there was a failure to act on previous warnings about media misconduct.

To make recommendations:

1. for a new more effective policy and regulatory regime which supports the integrity and freedom of the press, the plurality of the media, and its independence, including from Government, while encouraging the highest ethical and professional standards;
2. for how future concerns about press behaviour, media policy, regulation and cross-media ownership should be dealt with by all the relevant authorities, including Parliament, Government, the prosecuting authorities and the police;
3. the future conduct of relations between politicians and the press; and d. the future conduct of relations between the police and the press.

Part 2

To inquire into the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International, other newspaper organisations and, as appropriate, other organisations within the media, and by those responsible for holding personal data.

To inquire into the way in which any relevant police force investigated allegations or evidence of unlawful conduct by persons within or connected with News International, the review by the Metropolitan Police of their initial investigation, and the conduct of the prosecuting authorities.

To inquire into the extent to which the police received corrupt payments or other inducements, or were otherwise complicit in such misconduct or in suppressing its proper investigation, and how this was allowed to happen.

To inquire into the extent of corporate governance and management failures at News International and other newspaper organisations, and the role, if any, of politicians, public servants and others in relation to any failure to investigate wrongdoing at News International.

In light of these inquiries, to consider the implications for the relationships between newspaper organisations and the police, prosecuting authorities, and relevant regulatory bodies – and to recommend what actions, if any, should be taken.

http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/

Authority for Television and Video On Demand (ATVOD)

ATVOD is the independent co-regulator for the editorial content of UK video on demand services that fall within the statutory definition of On-Demand Programme Services. ATVOD was previously known as The Association for Television On-Demand.

In addition to determining which services fall within that definition, our role is to ensure that such video on demand services comply with their statutory obligations in relation to the ‘editorial content’ to which they provide access and the need to notify ATVOD of their intention to provide an On Demand Programme Service.

This website contains information on ATVOD and on the video on demand services it regulates. On it we publish the rules with which regulated services must comply, along with non-binding guidance on their application, details of how users of those services can complain about apparent breaches, and an online complaints form.

http://www.atvod.co.uk/

Advertising Standards Authority - www.asa.org.uk/

Article 19 - www.article19.org

The Association for Television On-Demand - http://atvod.co.uk

BBC - www.bbc.co.uk

British and Irish Legal Information - www.bailii.org

Campaign for Freedom of Information - www.cfoi.org.uk

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom - www.cpbf.org.uk

Council of Europe - www.coe.int

Department of Culture, Media and Sport - www.culture.gov.uk

European Broadcasting Union - www.ebu.ch

European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home

Index on Censorship - www.indexoncensorship.org

Ministry of justice - www.justice.gov.uk

National Union of Journalists - www.nuj.org.uk

Office of Communications (OFCOM) - www.ofcom.org.uk

Office of Information Commissioner - www.ico.gov.uk

Oxford University Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy - pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk

Press Complaints Commission - www.pcc.org.uk/

Scottish Information Commissioner - www.itspublicknowledge.info

5RB - www.5rb.com

PhonepayPlus (formerly the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICTSIS)) - www.phonepayplus.org.uk