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Organisation providing a befriending service to members of families and close friends bereaved by murder and manslaughter. Chief executive Rose Dixon submitted written evidence concerning the trauma experienced by the bereaved when reading graphic accounts in the press and calling for restraint by the media.
British mobile network operator, internet service provider and owner of former telephone operating companies T-Mobile and Orange. Gave evidence to the Inquiry on how the phones of the former companies could have been hacked.
Founded 2004. American online social-media and networking-service company based in Menlo Park, California. Richard Beecroft Allan, Facebook's director of public policy for Europe at the time of the Inquiry, gave evidence and was questioned about policy concerning inter alia pornography, bullying, violence and hate speech, as well as on Facebook's policies on removal of posted comments.
Founded 1998. American multinational technology company that specialises in internet-related services and products, including online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. John Collins, vice-president of global communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told the Inquiry self-regulation was important, but could be aided by a legal backstop. Google's legal director Daphne Keller also gave evidence and was asked about Max Mosley's privacy case against News of the World. She said he had done the right thing in approaching individual websites to have invasive material removed. Google had removed hundreds of links from search results but that didn't make such material "disappear".
