Astounding Assault on Privacy Rights by News Corporation

Former PM Gordon Brown will shortly announce that he, too, was hacked by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, with the scandal now broadening to include the Times of London and the Sun. 

A “blagger” working for the Sunday Times posed as Brown six times to gain information from his bank account; also, his lawyers were tricked by a Sunday Times employee into handing over personal legal information. The Sun also obtained records from Brown’s son’s medical file. The Guardian says “the sheer scale of the data assault on Brown is unusual, with evidence of attempts to obtain his legal, financial, tax, medical and police records as well as to listen to his voicemail.”

It’s believed that Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have also been hacked by The News of the World. According to the BBC, the newspaper paid bribes to a royal security guard in order to get the cell phone # of at least 10 royals, so that their voicemails could be hacked.

There is nothing that we can find on the FOX News website in current news about events in Britain. For FOX, a more important story is World is Court Upholds Conviction of British Bishop.

WSJ is covering the story with News Corp. Digs in Heels on BSkyB Bid and Amid Turmoil, Newspaper Bides Readers Farewell. No mention is made of the latest allegations as reported by The Daily Beast, The Guardian, and BBC News. The London Times is leading with a story “Journalists from The Sunday Times and The Sun obtained information from Gordon Brown’s legal files, bank account and his young son’s medical redord … “

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