![]() More to the point, the press release alleges the “hiring of private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside people’s cars and homes” the “commissioning of individuals to surreptitiously listen into and record people’s live, private telephone calls whilst they were taking place” and the “accessing of bank accounts, credit histories and financial transactions through illicit means,” among other illegal practices. ![]() In a press release issued through the law firm Hamlins on October 6, these individuals publicly claimed they were “the victims of abhorrent criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy” at the hands of Associated Newspapers, parent company of the Mail and its sister titles, the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline. A raft of fresh allegations from a number of very prominent people have not only thrust the matter back into the headlines, but also ensnared one of Britain’s most powerful media organizations, the Daily Mail, which now faces a “legal offensive”-as the plaintiffs’ lawyers describe it-from a group that includes Prince Harry (already at war with the British tabloids over their coverage of Meghan Markle) Baroness Doreen Lawrence Sir Elton John and his husband, David Furnish and the actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost. ![]() For those of us who painstakingly obsessed over every twist and turn in this sordid affair, it was a hearty dose of nostalgia.Īnd yet, news about phone hacking suddenly feels anything but nostalgic. Sunday’s episode, “Hack Job,” revisited the phone-hacking imbroglio that rained disgrace on Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids in the early 2010s, upending his entire global media apparatus in the process. ![]() On Sunday night, CNN aired part five of The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, a new documentary series that’s basically the real-life version of Succession. ![]()
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