Can checking your e-mail really be a human right? Carphone Warehouse hopes so. After the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, announced his plans to disconnect persistent internet pirates last week, the owner of Britain’s largest internet service provider, TalkTalk, threatened him with legal action under human rights legislation.

Sounding more like the campaigns manager from Amnesty International than an executive with an internet provider, Andrew Heaney stoked fears of a “kangaroo court” that would lead to “wrongful accusations” and render internet users “guilty until proven innocent”.

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