Investigations by Britain's domestic security service, MI5, can include undercover surveillance, phone tapping and communications intercepts.
He and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman were jailed over royal phone tapping in 2007.
In Australia, bugging and phone tapping are regulated separately but priority is given in both sets of legislation to individual privacy.
The British bugging and phone tapping laws are so riddled with technical holes that they provide little guarantee that an individual's privacy will not be wrongfully invaded.
The main law controlling phone tapping in Britain is the Interception of Communications Act, which the then Conservative government was forced to introduce in 1985, after a case at the European Court of Human Rights.
But while the proposed new legislation would cover phone tapping and mail interceptions, it conspicuously fails to deal with other, no less intrusive, forms of electronic surveillance such as long-distance microphones, laser devices and the placing of bugs.
The committee also said the publishers of the News of the World suffered "collective amnesia" over the extent of illegal phone-tapping by its reporters.
Mr Uribe reacted by sacking the police chief for the phone-tapping.
The newspaper says prosecutors told a judge investigators recorded up to 25, 000 phone calls, tapping nine cellphones over four months.
They put it on anyway and tracked Jones for a month, as well as tapping his phone.
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Google Wallet allows you to use your existing credit cards when you make a purchase just by tapping your phone.
Tapping a phone with NFC is not "the right way to go" because there are too many middlemen, he said.
In the U.S., consumers have been slow to adopt mobile-payments products that enable transactions by tapping a phone instead of swiping a piece of plastic.
Google Wallet uses near field communication (NFC) to make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout.
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In one scenario, I checked in at an airport, got access to the business lounge and then got through security, all by tapping my phone at various stages.
Is it politically correct to be tapping away on your phone while listening to someone speak at a conference?
And everyone is tapping on a smart phone or laptop, sharing links.
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Forget about wearing out your thumbs tapping those tiny keys on your cell phone.
She and Lutz worked closely when he headed product development, and she's been tapping him for advice during monthly dinners or phone calls.
Mr Sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.
By mining employee business communications and tapping into corporate email, calendaring, social networks, phone systems and collaboration systems, BranchIt serves as a corporate social search engine.
For the first time ever, Kyocera has implemented its proprietary voice-activated command feature into the DIGNO S, allowing the user to speak to the phone to activate e-mail, phone and other commonly used applications - a function accessible by simply tapping an icon on the lock screen.
Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is tapping Wu for advice on legislation that would make it illegal for phone companies to block access to the Internet on mobile devices.
So, using Skinput, someone could send text messages by tapping his or her arm in certain places -- without pulling the phone out of a pocket or purse.
Open and secure NFC-connectivity makes it possible to share and receive content by tapping with compatible devices, or make secure payments using the Wallet application in Windows Phone 8.
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Motorola created quite some buzz with its first "Intel inside" Android phone, the RAZR i, back in September, so it's only natural to see the company tapping into the Chinese market with a localized variant.
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