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."

Comments

Re:Are they just the ones that got caught?

[clickclickdrone]

>The Daily Mail has been noticeably reluctant to comment on the subject, for example.
They just haven't found an angle yet to blame it on immigrants. Luckily, Murdoch has just arrived...

Re:for the wrong reasons

[vlm]

It isn't like email storage requirements are a practical limitation

Talk like that is going to result in the lawyers requiring all emails to be hidef videos with 5.1 sound, no more plain text. Keep quiet lest a lawyer hear us, unless you look forward to supporting that kind of a monstrosity...