Newspaper phone-hacking scandal goes beyond voicemail - tech - 12 July 2011 - New Scientist
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Brown and like-minded colleagues warned British lawmakers about this self-authorisation and other anomalies during the passage of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) in 2000. Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer at the time, today revealed that his child’s medical records had been appropriated by another News International title, The Sun.
“We predicted facilities like RIPA’s self-authorisation would be abused, but the government called us paranoid, asking us what we had to hide. We said it’s not so much government we’re worried about as hackers and corrupt insiders – and we have been proven right,” says Ian Brown.
“It’s a case of ’We told you so’.”