Phone hacking investigation widens to sale of private details

[seafan]

Source: UK Guardian

The Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed it has passed to police the file of a 2006 investigation into the sale of private information to journalists.

The transfer of the Operation Motorman files, which documented the practices of private investigator Stephen Whittamore and associates, marks the widening of the inquiry into phone hacking to the broader issue of paying for access to confidential information.

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Research by the lobby group Big Brother Watch reveals that between 2007 and 2010, 904 police officers and staff across the country were subject to internal disciplinary offences for breaches of the Data Protection Act, which governs access to personal information. Of these cases, only 98 resulted in the dismissal of the staff member involved.

"Our investigation shows that not only have police employees been found to have run background records checks on friends and possible partners, but some have been convicted for passing sensitive information to criminal gangs and drug dealers," said Daniel Hamilton, the director of Big Brother Watch.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/21/phone-hacking-operation-motorman-files

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This is going metastatic.

[Kingofalldems]

1. K and R for all the Steve Doocy fans

[Amonester]

2. Bwahahahah. Ain't that "deregulated" thus "self-disciplined" system the best?

:sarcasm::sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :puke:

[Dappleganger]

3. It sure is!

No accountability and they get to write and re-write all the laws they don't like because of the politicians in their pockets.

[Amonester]

5. They write and re-write the rules like a mafia dinner table reunion would.

And all that, at the taxpayers' (who have no say) expense!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, seafan.