Tory communications boss Andy Coulson has assured MPs that he played no part in either condoning or facilitating phone hacking while editor of the News of the World. Coulson quit as NoTW editor in 2007 after the paper’s royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, and a private investigator accomplice, Glen Mulcaire, were jailed for hacking into the…
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Deutsche Bank sacks two for spying
Deutsche Bank has sacked two senior executives for spying on its board of directors and two other people. Prosecutors, data protection officials and financial regulators are all investigating the bank for allegedly spying on its own chief operating officer, a board member, an activist shareholder and a media mogul. The bank is awaiting results of…
NZ credit firms eye privacy changes
Credit-reporting firms are pushing for a privacy law change to collect more information on New Zealanders seeking finance. The privacy commissioner’s office is reviewing the proposal as part of a wider review of credit reporting in New Zealand, but an academic says it could force more Kiwis to turn to loan sharks for finance. Credit-reporting…
Internet interception to start in Switzerland
Wikileaks.org has published confidential documents that “detail information on an official program for centralized, real-time, interception of Internet traffic in Switzerland. The interception will start on August 1, 2009.” One of the documents in the file is draft version 0.2 of TR TS (Technical Requirements for Telecommunication Surveillance). It is dated May 2009 and “applies…