Media News - Friday, May 30, 2008
Investigators raid German telecom giant in spy probe
Prosecutors raided Deutsche Telekom's headquarters on Thursday as a
scandal that has seen Europe's biggest phone company confess to spying
on journalists and senior executives escalated. Board members meanwhile
vowed to sue the company for tracking their calls, a financial newspaper
accused it of spying on its staff and the current chief executive looked
in danger of becoming implicated in the affair. Deutsche Telekom at the
weekend conceded that it had hired detectives to track hundreds of
thousands of phone calls by senior executives and journalists to
identify the sources of press leaks. On Thursday, staff representatives
on the company's supervisory board said they assumed they were 'the
first victims' in the affair and have decided to sue the company for
violating their privacy rights. Deutsche Telekom admitted on Saturday
that it had made 'ill-advised use of communications data' in 2005 and
probably 2006. It has so far admitted only to targeting the magazine
Capital but on Thursday the Financial Times Deutschland alleged that it
was also a victim of espionage by Deutsche Telekom and as early as 2000.
The daily said in a front-page report that Deutsche Telekom had hired
private detectives to spy on its reporters eight years ago and had even
secretly filmed the newsroom. Both the FTD and Capital belong to the
publishing house Gruner und Jahr, which is turn is owned by German media
giant Bertelsmann. The publisher has warned that it is considering both
criminal and civil charges against Deutsche Telekom. (AFP)
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