Sentences with phrase «phone hacking because»

And people should care about phone hacking because it was being used to run and intimidate their politicians.

The committee also predicted it would likely have to revisit the topic of the phone hackings because of the recent torrent of new information released surrounding them.

Not exact matches

There's the obvious sense of resentment, not least because most journalists have never hacked a phone.

The prime minister said he had decided to give the former News of the World editor, who had edited the tabloid at the time when royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed for phone - hacking, a «second chance» because he had «done the honourable thing» by resigning.

But surely he said his lack of knowledge of phone - hacking was a key factor behind his letting Yates make the decision on hiring Wallis - because he didn't know anything about phone - hacking?

They defended Llewellyn's decision to stop any discussion of phone - hacking between Yates and Cameron as operationally sound (correct) but misunderstood the argument that this situation only pertained because of Cameron's error in hiring Coulson in the first place.

Mr Murdoch will be keen to argue that he was unaware of information suggesting phone - hacking was systemic before this time because it would contradict the company's long - held line that that it was the work of a rogue reporter.

There was the craven response from Nick Clegg that although phone hacking was already illegal it was still justified to bring in further restrictions because Lord Leveson said so.

We get an incredibly high profile not just on phone hacking, we've done the BBC as well, I've got the chairman of the trust and the director general coming in and that's going to be a huge hearing as well... Because we have this power of summons, if there is a scandal, the great thing about a committee is that they can say «right I want every person who is involved in this in public, in front of this committee, answering why this has happened and what we're going to do about it».

The Downing Street spin doctor handed in his notice because he could not shrug off allegations that he knew about phone hacking when he was Editor of the News of the World.

Mr Yates told MPs on two separate Commons committees last week that police only found ten to 12 victims of phone - hacking because prosecutors had instructed them that that hacked messages needed to have been heard before their intended recipient.

They were «very happy to speak to each other», she says, after admitting that the father - son «dynamic» was fraught generally because of phone - hacking - just like all the other relationships at the time.

The acting deputy commissioner told MPs that the Met had failed to investigate sufficient cases of phone - hacking because it had operated under previous Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidelines, which found that a crime had only been committed if voicemails were hacked before the intended recipient heard them.

Kelvin MacKenzie told the then News International boss, Rebekah Brooks, and Sun editor, Dominic Mohan, he was quitting as a columnist in 2011 because he thought they had kept the full extent of phone hacking from him, according to evidence presented as part of a civil case against the newspaper's publisher on Thursday.

Until recently the best - known of these — because he was caught and convicted — was Glenn Mulcaire, whose speciality was illegal phone hacking, including the phone of Mr Hunt's predecessor, Tessa Jowell.

He denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking and resigned because he said a spokesman could no longer continue when he needed a spokesman himself.

«The only explanation [for it not being a secret] is because the phone hacking was being used to try and find Milly Dowler, nobody would mind,» said Edis.

Laidlaw told jurors that it «just doesn't follow» that because two news desk heads, Greg Miskiw and Neville Thurlbeck, had pleaded guilty to phone hacking offences that «Mrs Brooks must be guilty too».

According to a Welsh Government spokesperson, Carwyn Jones is allowed to use his official phone to call, text email and tweet on party matters because it's important that the First Minister only ever uses a secure device that's protected against hacking.

To make my case I need to sketch in a little history, beginning with the fact that David Cameron set up the Leveson inquiry because of the News of the World phone - hacking scandal.

«There's a misunderstanding here that suggests just because your name features in a private investigator's files, your phone has been hacked.

Rebekah Brooks last night told the News of the World's staff that she had no option but to close Britain's best - selling Sunday newspaper because it had become a «toxic brand» because of the slew of phone - hacking revelations.

I'm sure the fanbois don't want to hear it, because they love hacking around in Linux and putting custom roms on their phones etc..

Here is a list of the phones I own, must of which I paid full retail All hacked to hell and back btw HTC Juno (retired) HTC Dream still keep it up to date as far as Roms go HTC Rhodium, running android and wm 6.5 XXX HTC LEO, my main phone btw and consider it by far the fastest and best, Froyo and NRG max manilla, and the galaxy s which has to be rooted and droped the crappy sammy shell because its laggy as hell stock.

I am terrified that ALL the personal info I have offered to prosper as requested over the past 8 days is now out there in cyberspace just floating around for anyone to commit identity FRAUD on me............... and I have just opened myself up to intrusive emails, phone call solicitations (2 of which have happened today alone) and even the possibility of an strong armed robbery because PROSPER now knows my STREET address and can sell it, give it away, or even get «hacked» to anyone.

It also doesn't help that because Aiden is hacking everything with his phone, he is almost always looking down at the phone, and his baseball cap obscures his face.

Here's a story pointing out that the phone «hacking» that has caused so many headlines (and resignations) lately in the United Kingdom was possible because of a simple default setting on mobile phones sold in the UK, that no one took the trouble to fix and that no regulator was prepared to take responsibility for.

Take Brian Krebs — he's literally an expert on information security and he still got hacked because Paypal trusted some random bozo on the phone!

Because millions of Android phones are still running software that's years old they can be vulnerable to serious hacks like Heartbleed and Stagefright.

After sending all these things to the bank I got quite fast a phone call: Sorry, but it's absolutely impossible to get clearance for a bigger deposit (based on the sell off of my coins)- because Mt. Gox was hacked as far as they know, and therefore they have to decline, since I bought my coins from «not reproducible sources»... WTF!?