Media & Communications Law
Did News of the World Reporters Pay Police to Track Media Targets via Cellphone 'Pings'?
Authorities in London are looking into allegations that a now-defunct British tabloid not only hacked into the telephone voicemail accounts of individuals in the news but paid corrupt police officers to help target their subjects’ geographic locations by tracking their cellphone signals, the Associated Press reports.
The practice, known as “pinging,” takes its name from the way cellphone signals bounce or “ping” off of signal towers.
Related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “News Reports Claim Murdoch Entities May Have Hacked and Bullied at US Companies, Too”
Telegraph: “Phone hacking: Sean Hoare, the News of the World whistleblower, post-mortem results due”
