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Originally Posted by Paul
They did ?
I saw it at the time and just ignored it, as most people would pay no attention anyway, but I never saw any article saying they changed their minds.
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They put the guidance on their website and removed it the same morning, but their press office continued responding to media enquiries as if it was current. The result is that the legal position is now clear as mud.
It appears that they still think it’s against the criminal law, so the CPS could prosecute if handed a case by the police, but only if the police actually conducted an investigation. And the BBC at least has had no success getting any police force to go on record and say it would be prepared to spend time investigating an allegation of password sharing.
Where this seems to leave us is that it *might* be illegal, but the IPO won’t push it, the police won’t investigate it and the CPS is therefore not expecting to prosecute it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64003237