Tony Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 More illegal journalism scandal brewing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I've seen a few posts on forums that say this was announced on radio, but no news website appears to have a story on it yet, so we can't link any details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Just confirmed by the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/08/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-scandal Ex NoW Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman now works at the Daily Star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 As the Guardian link mentions, one of the guys arrested in relation to the NotW scandal now works at the Daily Star - so it could just be that they wanted to look at his old records, or it could be that they think the Star's also been up to no good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magilla Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 As the Guardian link mentions, one of the guys arrested in relation to the NotW scandal now works at the Daily Star - so it could just be that they wanted to look at his old records, or it could be that they think the Star's also been up to no good. Judging by the comments made by the guy Hugh Grant recorded, it sounds like most tabloids were up to the same. The Daily Mail pays the best... apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica23 Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Gosh, not the Daily Star too. I FEEL SO LET DOWN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quisquose Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Baring in mind that this 'hacking' simply amounted to ringing somebody's mobile phone voicemail and taking advantage of the fact that hardly anybody (I haven't) has changed the pin from "0000" or whatever, I would be amazed if 'hacks' on every newspaper hadn't done it. I know plenty of kids in playgrounds that have tried this with other kid's mobiles, not to mention company directors (little difference) that have tried it with competition director's mobiles. This has happened everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandad.Malky Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Gosh, not the Daily Star too. I FEEL SO LET DOWN. They will be saying the Sunday Sport is in on it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 The Information Commissioner has documented in his What Price Privacy? series that the practice of hacking is likely to be endemic. He reported that the invoice trail indicated that the few private investigators he had investigated had delivered "services" to the following tabloid newspapers: Daily/Sunday Mail had paid for 1,218 investigations to be undertaken by private investigators on behalf of up to 91 different journalists. The Daily/Sunday Mirror ordered 824 investigations on behalf of up to 70 journalists. The Sunday People ordered 802 investigations involving up to 50 journalists, and the News of the World (the paper of current interest) had ordered 228 transactions of up to 33 journalists. The evidence above suggests there were large number of invasions of privacy by hacking and the News of the World are not the only culprits. Any ministerial attempt to limit any inquiry to the Murdoch empire is an attempt to limit the scope of any inquiry. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/privacy_personal_data_protection_from_the_press/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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