Overview
- Another 41 claims remain unresolved, with reporting that as many as 1,323 people could be eligible to seek damages.
- A Freedom of Information response reported the Home Office spent £735,000 contesting the case.
- Nearly 2,000 phones were taken between April and November 2020, with full data downloads carried out until July of that year.
- Court evidence described pressures on migrants to surrender PINs and said extracted data was stored in an intelligence database known as Project Sunshine.
- Ministers have since legislated to allow device seizures, and the Home Office has resumed phone searches at Manston under the new law.