Update: Reporter accuses Murdoch editors in privacy row
Reuters has an update on a privacy scandal in the UK that I previously posted about:
Senior editors at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm asked a private investigator to obtain information on public figures from confidential databases, a rival journalist told British lawmakers on Tuesday.
Reporter Nick Davies was giving evidence to a parliamentary committee after writing in The Guardian last week that Murdoch journalists had tapped the cellphone messages of thousands of celebrities and obtained other secret personal information by deception.
Davies showed the committee a list of what he said were thousands of requests from journalists, including senior staff at the News of the World tabloid, to a private investigator to obtain information from confidential databases. [...]
Police last week declined to reopen a 2005 investigation that led to the jailing of News of the World journalist Clive Goodman, who reported on the royal family, and private investigator Glen Mulcaire for phone tapping. [...]
Davies said on Tuesday he believed documents he was citing had been seized by police in 2006, but had not been acted on.
“Scotland Yard has in its possession for over two years documents that implicate other News of the World journalists,” Davies said.
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