News of the World Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims

DMandPenfold writes "Police are questioning whether a change in News International's email retention policy was part of an effort to conceal widespread phone hacking by the News of the World, a scandal which is threatening Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of BSkyB. The trawl for emails and the questioning of changes in News International's email retention policy has important implications for IT security and corporate governance professionals, and is likely to see organizations examining their own policies and reminding their staff on acceptable usage and best practice for email."

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When do the investigations here start?

[HangingChad]

the News of the World, a scandal which is threatening Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of BSkyB.

You know News of the World isn't the only News Corp property hacking people's voicemails. Something like that would be all in a day's work for Fox News. Would anyone even pretend to be surprised if they're doing the same, or worse? It's the same people at corporate.

Wouldn't surprise me to find out the same thing was going on at WSJ. News of the World had a lot of great people working there who were dicked by a few News Corp lackeys. WSJ likewise used to be a reputable newspaper, but that was before Murdoch came along.