Some ministers hope that media regulator Ofcom will spare their blushes by halting the takeover because
the hacking scandal shows News Corp would not be a «fit and proper» owner of BSkyB.
Not exact matches
Although the introduction of the UK Bribery Act has no doubt improved the UK's ranking since 2010, recent events such as the phone
hacking scandal have
shown that there are still too many areas of corruption vulnerability in the UK public sector.
The phone -
hacking scandal has
shown how complacent we are about corruption.
Recent polls have
shown the Labour lead over the Conservatives diminishing to as little as one per cent, down from a high during the phone -
hacking scandal.
That mirrored other polls
showing a growth in climate skepticism over the same time frame, a phenomenon that has been explained by the economic crisis, weather and the «Climategate»
scandal, which revealed scientists wrangling in
hacked emails (ClimateWire, Dec. 3, 2009).
However as the recent
scandal in the UK concerning the
hacking of phones of celebrities, the bereaved etc
shows, the public interest is not always the same thing as that which interests the public.
This
shows little response to Facebook's involvement in Russian
hacking or the recent Cambridge Analytica
scandal.