Sky hacked emails in 'public interest'

If it's in the public interest then maybe,

but the judge would have to consider Sky's coverage of other hackers, if at any state sky has portrayed them as negative then of course they have just destroyed that defence as you can't have it both ways.

Even if it is in the public interest you must still be accountable, and that means those who hacked and those who authorised it and those who benefited from it in any way must be held accountable, and not just when caught. By not volunteering the information before it was requested they have lost that defence too.

So far they haven't a leg to stand on as it was done illegally

the acid test then not whether it was in the public interest but that even if it was, could the story, not pieces of the story, have appeared without it ?


Oh and these tests would have to apply to each and every case.


However, the parent organisation has already paid out millions because of fishing for stories that were not and could not be in the public interest , so jail them all :mad: