#UK#News#Media#Journalism#MurdochPapers#Murdoch#PhoneHacking: "It is essential to say that, although some 1,600 cases have been settled with the payment of damages, much of this new evidence consists of unproven allegations. The news organisations contest many of the alleged facts as well as the inferences on which the claimants are resting their cases. It will fall to the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service to check the reality of the new evidence, to decide whether any of it is strong enough to warrant opening an investigation and, if so, whether it would be right to bring any charges against any of those alleged to be involved in unlawful behaviour.
What follows is the story of the evidence that is waiting to be examined, in addition to what was already known 10 years ago. Ultimately, it is a tale not only about the behaviour of the press, but also about the behaviour of power."
Hugh Grant has settled his illegal snooping lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper. The actor explained on X that he did this in order to avoid possibly heavy court costs, but made clear that he would not stop his quest to see justice done for victims of unlawful information gathering such as phone hacking. "As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court. I don’t want to accept this money or settle. I would love to see all the allegations that they deny tested in court,” he wrote, adding “Murdoch’s settlement money has a stink and I refuse to let this be hush money,” and said he would use the proceeds of his settlement to “expose the worst excesses of our oligarch-owned press." Here's more from the Hollywood Reporter.
India: Damning new forensic investigation reveals repeated use of Pegasus spyware to target high-profile journalists
Amnesty International, in partnership with The Washington Post, has unearthed shocking new details about the continued use of NSO Group’s highly invasive spyware Pegasus to target prominent journalists in India, including one who had previously been a victim of an attack using the same spyware.
India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
The intensity of the Indian government effort to discredit and strong-arm Apple disturbed executives at the company’s headquarters, in Cupertino, Calif., and illustrated how even Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech companies can face pressure from the increasingly assertive leadership of the world’s most populous country — and one of the most critical technology markets of the coming decade.
Southern Investigations are in the news again. Daniel Morgan, a director, was murdered in the Golden Lion car park in 1987 and replaced by a man who had been investigating the case. So began the long running story of #metpolice#corruption and incompetence.
#PhoneHacking#Cellebrite#Cybersecurity: "In a leaked training video for law enforcement customers that was obtained by TechCrunch, a senior Cellebrite employee tells customers that “ultimately, you’ve extracted the data, it’s the data that solves the crime, how you got in, let’s try to keep that as hush hush as possible.”
“We don’t really want any techniques to leak in court through disclosure practices, or you know, ultimately in testimony, when you are sitting in the stand, producing all this evidence and discussing how you got into the phone,” the employee, who we are not naming, says in the video.
For legal experts, this kind of request is troubling because authorities need to be transparent in order for a judge to authorize searches, or to authorize the use of certain data and evidence in court. Secrecy, the experts argue, hurts the rights of defendants, and ultimately the rights of the public."