Ethical Relativism- Sky News Morphs into Anonymous? April 5, 2012
Posted by Chris Mark in Industry News, InfoSec & Privacy, Laws and Leglslation.Tags: Chris Mark, cybersecurity, data breach, emall hacking, mark consulting group, Murdoch, NewsCorp, privacy
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By now most are probably aware of the email hacking scandal that severely damaged Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp empire. NewsCorp reporters were caught illegally accessing phone calls of the UK Royal family and hacking into email accounts of individuals. Murdochs’ son had to resign from his position as Chairman of BSkyB which own UK’s Sky News.
According to a report on CNN this morning UK news channel Sky News said Thursday it had authorized its journalists to hack into the e-mail of individual members of the public on two occasions. The very same people (journalists) that will scream for “freedom of speech” and “freedom of the press” and claim journalistic integrity are now violating the public’s privacy in a scramble to maintain market share and increase revenue? (more…)