Phone-hacking suspects have close ties to U.K. prime minister
LONDON — Prosecutors announced criminal charges Tuesday against eight people in connection with Britain’s phone-hacking scandal, including a onetime confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch and a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron.
The eight suspects are accused… Continue reading
Britain charges 8 in phone hacking scandal
LONDON — Britain‘sphone hacking scandal took a dramatic turn Tuesday with the filing of criminal charges against eight people, including a onetime confidant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron.
Prosecutors… Continue reading
BJP tapping phones of senior leaders in MP, alleges Congress
Madhya Pradesh Congress on Friday charged the state BJP government with tapping telephones of its party leaders. A complaint regarding phones being tapped would be filed with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and state Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, Congress state… Continue reading
Government Snooping Has Risen 75% Since 2007
Gennady Gudkov, a Just Russia party State Duma deputy and former security service officer, says conversations of his have been recorded.
Court-sanctioned snooping on private phone calls and e-mails has increased 75 percent over the… Continue reading
Tony Blair Heckled During Phone-Hacking Testimony
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before the ongoing phone-hacking inquiry to respond to criticisms that he was too cozy with media barons such as Rupert Murdoch, whose newspapers have been accused of tapping phones and bribing police. According… Continue reading
Is my phone really being tapped?
All this talk about privacy has me a bit worried. Should I be?
Well, not really. Unless you’re the king pin in an elaborate underground crime ring, a terrorist or using the internet for all the wrong reasons – the… Continue reading
Netherlands Top Country for Phone Tapping
THE HAGUE, 24/05/12 – In the Netherlands, over 22,000 telephones are tapped, or 1 per 1,000. Dutch detectives thereby listen in on far more telephones than their colleagues in neighbouring countries, it emerges from a study by the Scientific Research… Continue reading
MPs call for answers on Holland’s dubious phone tapping record
MPs are to debate the fact that one in 1,000 Dutch telephones is tapped with justice minister Ivo Opstelten.
Parties from across the political spectrum backed calls for the debate following the publication of a justice ministry report which shows… Continue reading
Mali: Journalists Accuse Military Authorities of Tapping Their Telephones
press release
Journalists in Mali are accusing the military authorities of illegally tapping their telephones as a means of silencing critical opinion in the country.
The accusation followed the arrest and subsequent detention of Birama Fall, managing editor of Le… Continue reading
