Phone-hacking

The judge overseeing the phone-hacking and privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and some 100 others against British publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) at London's High Court will deliver his judgment on Friday.

Britain's Prince Harry will find out on Friday whether he has won his phone-hacking lawsuit against publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), a case in which he gave evidence earlier this year, court officials said on Wednesday.

Prince Harry was a "prime target" for the tabloid press and must have been a victim of phone-hacking, his lawyer told London's High Court on Wednesday as the trial in the British royal's lawsuit against a newspaper publisher nears its end.

Harry, King Charles' younger son, is one of more than 100 people suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

Britain's Prince William has settled a phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm for a "huge sum" after a secret deal struck with Buckingham Palace, lawyers for the heir's brother Prince Harry said in court documents.

An international investigative consortium had claimed last year that many Indian ministers, politicians, activists, businessmen and journalists were potentially targeted by Pegasus, the phone-hacking software of Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies.

The Israeli government on Saturday distanced itself from the NSO Group, a firm blacklisted this week by the US over alleged misuse of its phone-hacking spyware.

Pegasus scandal: Mamata Banerjee has set up a panel - to be headed by retired judges Justice MB Lokur and Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya - to probe the Pegasus phone-hacking scandal within Bengal

Amid growing outrage over the Pegasus phone-hacking row, Signal - pitched by itself as a more secure version of WhatsApp - took a swipe at the government over new IT laws requiring messaging apps to break encryption and 'trace' chats.

It is not the first time that phones have been tapped in India, and it is certainly not the first time that the finger of suspicion has pointed to agencies of the union government. Nevertheless, it counts as a new and disturbing development.

Elon Musk had taken a jibe at WhatsApp in the wake of the highly publicised Jeff Bezos phone-hacking scandal, claiming that the platform comes with a free phone hacking risk.

A former Sunday Mirror journalist is to be charged with hacking phones 13 years ago, prosecutors said on Thursday.

A former newspaper editor, whose emails led to the exposure of widespread phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct British tabloid, the News of the World, pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally listening to people's voicemails.

Andy Coulson, a former top aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron, was jailed for 18 months on Friday for his role in the phone-hacking scandal that brought down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson, found guilty last week over phone-hacking while editing a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, will stand trial for a second time over alleged illegal payments, prosecutors said on Monday.

The judge overseeing the phone-hacking and privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and some 100 others against British publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) at London's High Court will deliver his judgment on Friday.

Britain's Prince Harry will find out on Friday whether he has won his phone-hacking lawsuit against publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), a case in which he gave evidence earlier this year, court officials said on Wednesday.

Prince Harry was a "prime target" for the tabloid press and must have been a victim of phone-hacking, his lawyer told London's High Court on Wednesday as the trial in the British royal's lawsuit against a newspaper publisher nears its end.

Harry, King Charles' younger son, is one of more than 100 people suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

Britain's Prince William has settled a phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm for a "huge sum" after a secret deal struck with Buckingham Palace, lawyers for the heir's brother Prince Harry said in court documents.

An international investigative consortium had claimed last year that many Indian ministers, politicians, activists, businessmen and journalists were potentially targeted by Pegasus, the phone-hacking software of Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies.

The Israeli government on Saturday distanced itself from the NSO Group, a firm blacklisted this week by the US over alleged misuse of its phone-hacking spyware.

Pegasus scandal: Mamata Banerjee has set up a panel - to be headed by retired judges Justice MB Lokur and Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya - to probe the Pegasus phone-hacking scandal within Bengal

Amid growing outrage over the Pegasus phone-hacking row, Signal - pitched by itself as a more secure version of WhatsApp - took a swipe at the government over new IT laws requiring messaging apps to break encryption and 'trace' chats.

It is not the first time that phones have been tapped in India, and it is certainly not the first time that the finger of suspicion has pointed to agencies of the union government. Nevertheless, it counts as a new and disturbing development.

Elon Musk had taken a jibe at WhatsApp in the wake of the highly publicised Jeff Bezos phone-hacking scandal, claiming that the platform comes with a free phone hacking risk.

A former Sunday Mirror journalist is to be charged with hacking phones 13 years ago, prosecutors said on Thursday.

A former newspaper editor, whose emails led to the exposure of widespread phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct British tabloid, the News of the World, pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally listening to people's voicemails.

Andy Coulson, a former top aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron, was jailed for 18 months on Friday for his role in the phone-hacking scandal that brought down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson, found guilty last week over phone-hacking while editing a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, will stand trial for a second time over alleged illegal payments, prosecutors said on Monday.