Report: Not Just For Tabloids; UK Privacy-Invading Hackers Widespread 39
The phone-hacking scandal that's surrounded Rupert Murdoch's tabloid empire is bad enough, but according to a newly revealed report, it's small potatoes compared to what some other companies have been doing in the UK. Presto Vivace writes with this excerpt from The Independent: "Soca, dubbed 'Britain's FBI,' knew six years ago that blue-chip institutions were hiring private investigators to obtain sensitive data – yet did next to nothing to disrupt the unlawful trade. The report was privately supplied to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics in 2012 yet the corruption in other identified industries, including the law, insurance and debt collectors, and among high-net worth individuals, was not mentioned during the public sessions or included in the final report."
Further: "Illegal practices identified by Soca investigators went well beyond the relatively simple crime of voicemail hacking and included live phone interceptions, police corruption, computer hacking and perverting the course of justice."
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We just really need a "Worldwide Revolution Day". The governments of the world are corrupt and frankly, no one is happy about living under them. Individually we are frustrated, City, county, state, province, we are hassled through what should be the one precious life we have. No one knows what to do to change anything. Voting doesn't work, asking doesn't work, setting up a Constitution doesn't work.
Fortunately for us, there are more of us, than them, by a huge factor. Let's just pick a day, next month, and lynch our powerful overlords, worldwide! I personally recommend revamping a U.S. Constitution with plain, easy to read, plain to interpret language to prevent corruption, later on, but, you may have ideas of your own.
Life is too short to continue to tolerate the pathetic shenanigans of those in "power". Frankly, we could let our pets run the world with better results.
Remove them, hang them, drag them through the streets like Mussolini. Tomorrow will be a better day, assuming the lesson is learned.