It is RARELY the sin that lands you in trouble; it is the cover-up. Britain is being reminded of this adage after a judge ruled on July 15th that a two-year gagging order barring all reporting of a serious security-data breach, and its equally serious consequences, was no longer justified. As he lifted the first-ever super-injunction granted to the government, Sir Martin Chamberlain, a High Court judge, said that the evidence for maintaining the order had been “fundamentally undermined” and that there was “no tenable basis” for continuing it.
