Tag: MURDOCH

In 2006, a U.K. investigation revealed that employees at Rupert Murdoch's 'News of the World' tabloid had successfully hacked into the cell phones of three aides to the royal family. A few months later, Scotland Yard discovered that reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had also gained access to the cell phones and voicemails of several celebrities, government officials ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Facebook garners constant criticism for various privacy issues, but the FTC just publicly reprimanded and punished Twitter for a lackadaisical approach toward security. Twitter's flaws resulted in hacks on both celebrity and employee accounts, prompting the FTC to forbid Twitter from "misleading consumers" about privacy protection ...