July 2011

Testimony by James Murdoch about Britain’s phone hacking scandal came under renewed scrutiny on Friday with Prime Minister David Cameron saying Mr. Murdoch still had “questions to answer” and a lawmaker calling for the police to open a new inquiry. The pressure on Mr. Murdoch built a day after two former executives of News International [...]

The Guardian reports: Scotland Yard has been asked to inspect thousands of files that could reveal whether its officers unlawfully procured mobile phone-tracking data for News of the World reporters. There were half a million requests by public authorities for communications data in the UK last year – of which almost 144,000 were demands for [...]

The Guardian reports: One of the members of the LulzSec hacking group has claimed on Twitter that the group has got 4GB of emails taken from the Sun and the “royal family” which may be released as soon as lunchtime on Thursday. The claim follows a hacking attack against News International on Tuesday night during [...]

Seumas Milne writes: The Tory operation to bury the phone-hacking scandal in spin and official inquiries is now in full flow. On his way back from Africa, David Cameron declared it was essential to get the whole business into perspective, echoing Rupert Murdoch’s insistence that his competitors had got up “this hysteria”. Today, the prime [...]

The Guardian reports: Rupert Murdoch’s News International has been found by a parliamentary committee to have “deliberately” tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World, the Guardian has learned. The report by MPs from the all-party home affairs committee will be released on Wednesday and its [...]