There was an article in the Telegraph the other day by Joshua Rosenberg
about an investigator who had obtained lots of personal information about
private individuals for national newspapers using subterfuges.
The article is very good as it gives the ruses that such people use to
obtain information.
For instance, if he wanted to obtain someone's address he will ring up
someone else that he knows is a friend and say that he has found X's address
book and can they tell him X's address so that they can return it.
An example that was given of someone who was delivering to the house of a
lottery winner and the investigator looked into the identity (probably car
registration) of the person visiting the house.
I cannot find the reference on the Internet.
I am not sure what sanction was given but the investigator is no longer
working as an investigator.
(Note this is different to the case of the Royal Correspondent at the News
of the World.)
Nick Landau
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