phone-hacking

Maybe if it had happened after the News of the World phone-hacking story broke it would have gathered more. Or maybe not.

However, the report on the matter from Parliament found company had a far larger problem with phone hacking.

For as long as they could get away with it, executives claimed the phone hacking was the doing of a rogue reporter.

The trio are expected to be questioned over what they knew about phone-hacking at the News of the World and whether there was a cover-up.

There is also the question of police morale, already shaken by the phone-hacking scandal and a loss leadership in London.

Mr. Johnson said Monday that he made clear at the time his position could change if more phone-hacking information surfaced.

He brushes aside criticism in the British press for a commercial he did for Sky, at the height of the phone hacking scandal.

The closure was announced last week as the paper was caught up in a phone hacking scandal.

As a response to a phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch has shut down the News of the World, Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper.

News International has always maintained it had no knowledge of phone hacking by anybody acting on its behalf.

No matter what it's called, its editors are likely to keep the cell-phone hacking to a minimum, at least for a decent interval.

Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron is also under pressure because of his close links to people caught up in the phone hacking scandal.

In any case, News Corp. for years stuck to the story that the phone hacking was the work of a lone rogue reporter.

The programme's source said the technique of phone hacking was used on a daily basis.

Ms. Brooks was arrested Sunday in connection with a police probe into phone-hacking and was later released without charge.

Consumers face phone hacking and mobile spam, while security is always the first question raised by companies thinking about online data.

Meanwhile, the police investigation into the phone hacking scandal led to another arrest on Thursday.

"I had no knowledge of the extent of this disgraceful practice (of phone-hacking), " Stephenson said in a televised statement.

Later that year, News International conducted an internal review following allegations that phone-hacking had been more widespread.

"I think this is the most significant moment of two years of investigation into phone hacking, " Watson said.

Andy Coulson, then editor of the News of the World, resigned, but said he didn't know about the phone hacking.

Fresh allegations have emerged of phone hacking at the British newspaper, the News of the World.

Executives later told Parliament they had found nothing to suggest phone-hacking had been widespread.

Brooks is the 10th person to be arrested by the two police investigations into alleged criminal activity relating to phone hacking.

The phone-hacking scandal shows once again that accountability for policing the capital needs to be sorted out urgently.

Senior figures on the newspaper have been held for questioning by police investigating the phone hacking and corruption allegations.

The FBI has made an arrest as part of its phone hacking investigation weeks after nude photos of Scarlett Johansson leaked.

The hearings may shed more light on how the world's oldest profession has taken phone-hacking in its well-practised stride.

The rush of revelations in the phone-hacking affair has turned a squall into a storm.

On Tuesday the son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch answered questions about a phone hacking scandal at a British tabloid.

Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking.

Paul McMullan is the former News of the World deputy features editor who helped blow the whistle on phone-hacking practices at the paper.

But, in the wake of the phone-hacking debacle, his immediate challenge is to make the public respect them.

Meanwhile, Ofcom officials met with police as recently as last week to learn of any developments in the phone-hacking investigation.

He bowed to demands from the opposition Labour Party for a public inquiry into phone-hacking.

In Australia, where the tycoon was born, the government says it may review its media laws because of the British phone hacking scandal.

Ms. Brooks isn't the first person with close ties to Mr. Cameron to be arrested in the phone-hacking scandal.

The committee hearings are the latest in a series of dramatic developments in the phone-hacking saga.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror (not a Murdoch title) has been accused of phone-hacking by a former Liberal Democrat MP.

Mr Clarke and Lord Blair, a former Met commissioner, hinted that the real reason phone-hacking was not taken more seriously was terrorism.

Journalistic ethics are under the spotlight following fresh allegations of phone hacking by a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid.

Until recently it stuck doggedly to the line that phone-hacking was limited to a single reporter, Clive Goodman, who was jailed in 2007.

In recent days, the widening phone-hacking scandal has threatened to inflict substantial damage on the prime minister.

Pressure on News Corp over its phone hacking scandal is rising on three continents with fresh legal and political challenges.

The initial investigation by the Metropolitan Police into phone hacking was pitiful.

Competition for scoops drives some to excess, as the mobile phone hacking scandal shows.

The first is whether the phone-hacking scandal represents a notably egregious type of press misbehavior, rather than the usual naughtiness.

And James Hipwell, a former Daily Mirror employee, told two other newspapers he had witnessed phone-hacking at his former paper.

Evidence of possible phone hacking at the Sunday Mirror newspaper has been found by the BBC's Newsnight.

News Corp still faces a US investigation related to possible criminal conduct at its UK subsidiaries, including phone hacking and bribery.

The recall came as thousands more documents relating to the phone hacking scandal emerged.

phone hacking by journalists at The News of the World (NOTW), has grown legs.

Also interrogated was Sue Akers, who now heads the renewed investigation into phone-hacking.

Two top police officers have quit their jobs and Sean Hoare, a former staff member who exposed phone hacking, has been found dead.

British coppers are investigating both phone-hacking and bribery charges.

Ms. Brooks was arrested Sunday on suspicion of phone hacking and making corrupt payments to police.

Victims of the phone hacking were not even informed, let alone interviewed.

misled the committee about the full extent of his knowledge of phone-hacking.

Earlier this month, police arrested Mr. Coulson on suspicion of phone hacking.

As the phone-hacking scandal escalates at News Corporation, shareholders accuse its board of dozing on the job.

Those misjudgements over phone hacking still cast a shadow over him, but the riots have changed Britain's political landscape.

It's a sign of how serious the phone hacking scandal has become that the House of Commons will now debate the latest allegations.

The Press Complaints Commission has re-opened its inquiry in to phone hacking.

s (NSWA) phone-hacking debacle, in which the boards missed major risks they should have caught.

Brooks has denied any knowledge of the practice of phone hacking at the News of the World.

The invention of caller ID more than 20 years ago also opened up another common avenue for phone hacking: caller ID spoofing.

Will Britain's phone-hacking scandal bring new casualties in the media?

In one sense, the phone-hacking crisis offers encouraging news.

Glenn Mulcaire: Private investigator jailed along with Goodman for phone-hacking.

Scotland Yard initially probed allegations of phone hacking in 2005 and 2006, netting two successful convictions.

He was asked by committee member Janet Anderson MP: "Do you believe that phone hacking is ever in the public interest? "

The phone-hacking allegations are nothing new.

Then they acknowledged it was several but involved only phone hacking and only at that paper.

As challenges go, phone-hacking must seem a tiddler.

A judicial inquiry into phone-hacking could also do a lot of damage.

(Klein is now a top lieutenant to Rupert Murdoch and is running News Corp. 's (NWSA) internal probe of the phone-hacking scandal. )

Thus when an MP suggested employees had kept Mr Murdoch in the dark about the phone-hacking scandal, Mr Murdoch came to life, growling:

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