An interesting development in the News of the World case as the 'rogue reporter' defence unravels.
The Guardian reports: "News Corporation's defence that phone hacking at the News of the World was the work of a single "rogue reporter" was on the verge of collapse tonight after Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of the case, said the paper's head of news commissioned him to access voicemail messages."
This is a really big development in the case and one that is worth looking at by all Journalists because of the implications on our Code of Conduct.
Link here --> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/17/phone-hacking-news-of-the-world
Monday 17 January 2011
Saturday 8 January 2011
WikiLeaks Rolls On
Today on the Guardian website one story that caught my eye was that of a former WikiLeaks volunteer, Birgitta Jonsdottir, who was fighting legal action to stop the US government gaining access to, rather obscurely, all her private messages on Twitter.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?"
Although most of Twitter's messages are public, some can be sent privately and with her involvement in WikiLeaks it is these they are interested in.
The Guardian writes: "She said she was starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages, after being told by Twitter that a subpoena had been issued. She wrote: 'department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info – I got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over.'"
Full story here ---> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages?CMP=twt_fd
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?"
Although most of Twitter's messages are public, some can be sent privately and with her involvement in WikiLeaks it is these they are interested in.
The Guardian writes: "She said she was starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages, after being told by Twitter that a subpoena had been issued. She wrote: 'department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info – I got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over.'"
Full story here ---> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages?CMP=twt_fd
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