Sentences with phrase «phone hacking revelations»

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«This is a victory for people up and down this country who have been appalled by the revelations of the phone hacking scandal and the failure of News International to take responsibility,» Labour leader Ed Miliband said.

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

Goodman was arrested again, along with Andy Coulson, on 8 July 2011 after new revelations of the phone hacking were made public.

Hunt said that the revelation over the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone was significant for him as it raised concerns about a corporate governance issue.

He retains the support of Mr Cameron and the Chancellor George Osborne as well as his own ultra-loyal band of press officers, who insist that, despite an endless stream of revelations about the affair, no evidence has emerged that he knew about phone hacking by his reporters.

This was a truth universally acknowledged, including by politicians and press, after the revelations over the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone in 2011.

In 2011, when the new revelations of phone hacking broke, Hinton offered his resignation and it was accepted.

Before the revelation that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked brought the phone hacking story to its height our daily voting intention tracker was showing a steady Labour lead of around 5 - 7 points.

She has been facing mounting pressure to step down from all sides following the revelations about phone hacking by journalists at the News of the World which she used to edit.

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.

«Who Knows» speaks both to the context of 21st century surveillance (from the Snowden revelations to the ubiquity of CCTV cameras in urban space) as well to the cultures of gossip, scandal seeking, phone hacking and to the playful and flirtatious eye that people keep on each other through social media.

For some years in the early and mid 2000s, a routine form of news - gathering in the Mirror Group was phone hacking — listening to voicemails left for celebrities by their friends, and then dishing up revelations in their papers.