Gavriel Queenann reports: Israel’s Hebrew-language Maariv reported Monday that Israel Police arrested 22 ‘private investigators’ for installing spyware on mobile phones allowing access to private conversations and text messages. Documents filed in a Rishon Letzion court revealed the Israel Police Lahav 433 unit and Computer Crimes unit conducted a covert protracted investigation into 11 detective…
Category: Breaches
News Corp. Paying Phone Hack Victim’s Family $4.7 Million
Damon Poeter reports: News International will reportedly pay the family of a British murder victim about £3 million ($4.7 million) in a settlement to close a phone-hacking case that led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid and rocked Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation media empire to its core. The settlement includes a £2 million payment to…
UK: Benefits officer caught accessing records of his tenants
Claire Miller reports: A Cardiff council employee resigned after he was found to have accessed information about his tenants’ housing benefit claims while at work. An investigation was launched in December last year against the benefits officer for multiple inappropriate access to records relating to a property of which he is landlord. He has since…
NZ: BSA finds TV2’s Police programme breached privacy
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from a man that footage on TV2’s Police of him being arrested and taken to the police station for ‘detox’ after solvent abuse breached privacy and fairness standards. The BSA has ordered Television New Zealand to pay the complainant $1000 costs for breach of privacy and costs…