
"Dark arts" at the Daily Mail?
The News Agents
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Do You Think We've Got a New Court Case?
I'd say that the stuff we talked about so far is merely the tip of the iceberg. Landlines would have been done when it was sort of more traditional for people to use a landline instead of a mobile, one would be to have somebody on a junction box physically interrupting a signal and putting a recording device on it. Enterprise photographers might sit outside someone's house with a radio scanner hoping to listen into what people are saying on their landline phones. People give away their private information routinely via social media platforms anyway. And journalism has, from an investigative perspective, has altered fundamentally. I am surprised that it took this long for the court case to happen or court cases to happen.
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