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By: Charlieman

Charlieman — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:20:22 +0000

Scepticisle: “The key difference between Whittamore and Goodman and Mulcaire is that they were prosecuted under different legislation. Whittamore was tried under the Data Protection Act, having breached and blagged his way into numerous national databases, including the police’s, which was his undoing, while Goodman and Mulcaire, having only been identified as gaining access to mobile phone voicemail boxes, were tried under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.”

My guess is that the prosecutions used different law because the RIPA is so new. Whittamore was clearly in breach of the data protection act and it served the purpose; the fact that Goodman and Mulcaire were successfully prosecuted under RIPA establishes a precedent. Whether that precedent is meaningful depends on the toothfulness of prosecutors.

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By: Paranormal Guru

Paranormal Guru — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:37:18 +0000

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The dark arts come back to haunt Coulson — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:32:04 +0000

[...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhile most are only following this News of the World story back to when Clive Goodman was found, with the help of the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire , to have intercepted the messages of Prince William, as well as other flunkies in the royal household, it in fact goes further back to the arrest of Stephen Whittamore, a private detective who was used by almost every national tabloid, as well as a few broadsheets, to gain information not just from cracking into mobile phones but also from [...]

By: Liberal Conspiracy

Liberal Conspiracy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:02:58 +0000

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By: Tim Ireland

Tim Ireland — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:57:37 +0000

Septicisle: The dark arts come back to haunt Coulson http://bit.ly/2KObM or http://bit.ly/190EAR

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By: Paranormal Guru

Paranormal Guru — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:37:18 +0000

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By: Liberal Conspiracy

Liberal Conspiracy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:02:58 +0000

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