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News of the World phone-hacking scandal - live updates | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    News of the World phone-hacking scandal -As it happened* Andy Coulson and Clive Goodman arrested * Guardian reveals it warned Cameron over Coulson* Both being held at separate south London police stations* Cameron announces two inquiries, one by judge* Ofcom expected to announce investigation of News Corp * News International exec may have deleted emails
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Nick Davies on phone hacking, Murdoch and News of the World - video | Media | guardian.... - 0 views

  • The investigative journalist Nick Davies on how the phone-hacking scandal has escalated, leading to News of the World's announced closure
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    Nick Davies explains phone hacking, Murdoch and News of the World - video http://bit.ly/r3EpNl #NotW
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New Statesman - How widespread was phone hacking in high-profile investigations? - 0 views

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    How widespread was phone hacking in high-profile police investigations? My new post at @NewStatesman: http://bit.ly/l74wzg #HackedOff
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John Yates: I failed victims of News of the World phone hacking - Telegraph - 0 views

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    Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner John Yates says his decision not to reopen an investigation into News International in 2009 had been "a pretty crap one", which he now deeply regretted. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Yates also accuses senior executives at the Murdoch-owned company of failing to co-operate with the original Scotland Yard inquiry, first begun in 2005.
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Phone hacking: David Cameron is not out of the sewer yet - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Murdoch himself was protected by his potent political contacts. Tony Blair, for example, would do anything to help out his close friend and ally. I can even disclose that, before the last election, Tony Blair rang Gordon Brown to try to persuade the Labour Prime Minister to stop the Labour MP Tom Watson raising the issue of phone hacking. And as recently as two weeks ago both Ed Miliband and David Cameron attended the News International (News Corp’s British newspaper publishing arm) summer party, despite the fact that the newspaper group was the subject of two separate criminal investigations.
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    For more than three decades the most powerful man in Britain has not been a politician; it has been the brilliant but ruthless US-based media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who burst on to the scene with the purchase of the News of the World in an audacious takeover bid in 1968. Within barely a decade he had built up a controlling interest in British newspapers.But he did not just control our media. He dominated British public life. Politicians - including prime ministers - treated him with deference and fear. Time and again the Murdoch press - using techniques of which we have only just become aware - destroyed political careers. Murdoch also claims to determine the results of general elections.
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The Fall of the House of Murdoch - Jonathan Schell - Project Syndicate - 0 views

  • All of this is far removed from what a journalistic organization is supposed to do. Journalism’s essential role in a democracy is to enable people to fulfill their roles as citizens by providing information about government, other powerful institutions, civil movements, international events, and so on. But News Corporation replaces such journalism with titillation and gossip, as it did when it took over the 168-year-old News of the World and turned it into a tabloid in 1984, and with partisan campaigns, as it did when it created Fox News in 1996.
  • the UK phone-hacking scandal is of a piece with the Murdochs’ transformation of news into propaganda: both reflect an assault on democracy’s essential walls of separation between media, the state, and political parties. The Murdochs are fusing these entities into a single unaccountable power that, as we see in Britain today, lacks any restraint or scruple.
  • too many people want what the News Corporation has been offering. And what too many people want can be dangerous to a civilized, law-based society.
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Ian Burrell: 'Hackgate' is a story that refuses to go away - Commentators, Opinion - Th... - 0 views

  • Mr Murdoch's close henchman Les Hinton assured MPs that the affair had been dealt with and when, two years later, Mr Coulson – by now director of communications for David Cameron – appeared before a renewed parliamentary inquiry he seemed confident of being fireproof. "We did not use subterfuge of any kind unless there was a clear public interest in doing so," he told MPs. When Scotland Yard concluded that, despite more allegations of hacking, there was nothing new to investigate, Wapping and Mr Coulson must again have concluded the affair was over.
  • But after an election campaign in which the Conservatives were roundly supported by Mr Murdoch's papers, a succession of further claimants against the News of the World has come forward. Sienna Miller, among others, seems determined to take her case to court, compelling Mulcaire to reveal his handlers and naming in court documents Ian Edmondson, once one of Coulson's executives. Mr Edmondson is now suspended. But the story is unlikely to end there
  • When Rupert Murdoch came to England last October to deliver a lecture, there were some in the audience who raised eyebrows when the media mogul broke off from a paean to Baroness Thatcher to say of his journalists: "We will vigorously pursue the truth – and we will not tolerate wrongdoing." The latter comment seemed to refer to the long-running phone-hacking scandal involving the News of the World, the tabloid he has owned for 41 years. Mr Murdoch's executives at his British headquarters in Wapping, east London, tried to draw a veil over the paper's own dirty secrets in 2007 and had no doubt assured him that the matter was history. Yet here was the boss, four years later, having to vouch for his organisation's honesty. Related articles
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    The news agenda changes fast in tabloid journalism but Hackgate has been a story that refuses to go away. When the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and the News of the World journalist Clive Goodman were jailed for conspiring to intercept the voicemails of members of the royal household, Wapping quickly closed ranks. The editor Andy Coulson was obliged to fall on his sword - while denying knowledge of illegality - and Goodman was condemned as a rogue operator.
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For Activists, Tips in Safer Use of Social Media - Noticed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • people often lose sight of security concerns amid the collective euphoria that can accompany swift, large-scale democratization movements like the ones in Egypt and Tunisia. “The eye gets focused on the goal and not the process,” he said, “and during that time, they put their own personal security and their network security at risk.”
  • But it’s not just the fog of enthusiasm that renders people vulnerable; it’s lack of experience.
  • Those dangers have become increasingly apparent in recent months. Facebook accounts were hacked in Tunisia. In Egypt, authorities shut down the Internet and cellphones, and employed technology that turned mobile phones into furtive listening devices, according to the guide.
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  • The Access guide provides tips for keeping communications safer in such a climate. It recommends Gmail, for example, because it uses a secure connection by default, known as HTTPS, like at banking Web sites; Hotmail provides HTTPS as an option, and Facebook began offering it in January. The guide also explains how to disguise browsing histories and how to gain access to banned sites.
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