Talking to a business contact of mine earlier today, the subject of the Levenson enquiry concerning the alleged hacking of persons' phones by journalists/others came up. One thing that was mentioned was that the corruption of certain police officers, and possibly other officials with access to important data, highlights the dangers of aggregating large amounts of important data into a few pla...

A secretive multi-billion dollar industry is offering cutting-edge systems that enable governments to identify, track and monitor people through their phones and computers, a cache of hundreds of surveillance brochures and other marketing materials reveals. A German company offers the ability to track ‘political opponents’; an Italian company claims it can remotely seize control o...

Police have been banned from charging their mobile phones at work in a bid to save money.

British Prime Minister David Cameron held telephone talks yesterday (14 December) with potential allies in the European Union as he seeks to avoid isolation after vetoing EU treaty changes to allow closer fiscal union by eurozone members.  More »

James Murdoch saw the ‘damning e-mail’ that showed that more than one News of the World journalist hacked mobile phones, a witness tells Leveson

The National Transportation Safety Board’s edict, urging all 50 states to ban all forms of cellphone use in cars and trucks, marks the most far-reaching effort against “distracted driving”

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow Culture Media and Sport Secretary, said in response to reports today that Glenn Mulcaire may have been involved in illegally tracking mobile phones:

The DRC should be one of Africa‘s richest countries. It has a mineral wealth estimated to be around $24 trillion (£15tn). There are huge deposits of cobalt, diamonds, gold, copper, oil and 80% of the world’s supplies of coltan ore – a valuable mineral used in computers and mobile phones. So, “coltan” is the NGO

Experts are calling for a campaign of health warnings about mobile phones even though they admit there is no clear evidence that using them is harmful.

"As an American who spent many years in this underground industry, I can tell you that the British phone hacking scandal has exposed only a tiny part of a vast criminal network." So Frank Ahearn wrote in The Spectator a few weeks ago: he spent his life as a "skip-tracer" (as they're called in America), dealing in the black market for information. There are many clients, he...