Unlike the show in Austria, private detectives will not be exhibiting in Brighton.
He was responding to reports that the computer of his predecessor Peter Hain may have been hacked by private detectives from News International.
Most of the work now done by private detectives involves tracing assets and finding out whether people who say they are broke really are.
"The government has acted to control surveillance by local councils but this research shows more than ever before public bodies are using private detectives to do their snooping, " he said.
Having interviewed News Corp potentates from the Murdochs down, having heard from victims and private detectives and a vast array of interested parties, the committee is apparently deadlocked over its conclusions.
But it doesn't take one of Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) private detectives to figure out the news will have something to do with the iPod.
Maybe some more sleuthy individuals employed private detectives like some film noir turn of romantic events, but for the most part, people had no way of easily snooping on their loved ones' communicative naughtiness.
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There are around 15, 000 such companies offering across India, conducting an average of 50-100 investigations a month during peak wedding season, says Kumar Vikram Singh, chairman of the Association of Private Detectives of India (APDI).
Three others caught up in the scandal--former HP ethics chief Kevin Hunsacker and private detectives Ronald DeLia and Mathew Depante--will face 96 hours of community service after they pleaded no-contest to misdemeanor charges of fraudulent wire communications.
Many would argue that there is a public interest for private detectives to be employed to uncover information relevant to a judgement about the probity of politicians or public figures, if it is impossible to be obtained in more conventional journalistic ways.
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In September, HP admitted it hired private detectives who used pre-texting--or false pretenses--to get the personal phone records of nine journalists, seven directors and two HP employees in an effort to squash a long-running series of leaks from the company's board of directors.
In September, HP (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) admitted it hired private detectives who used pre-texting--or false pretenses--to get the personal phone records of nine journalists, seven directors and two HP employees in an effort to squash a long-running series of leaks from the company's board of directors.
He assumed that he could deregulate 12% to 15% of the apartments a year, a laughable figure that embittered even those residents whom management's private detectives didn't try to evict. (Mr. Speyer's firm, tellingly, had made its name in commercial real estate, not residential.) Mr. Speyer had overestimated cash flow and the pool of would-be affluent renters, and had underestimated maintenance costs.
Meanwhile detectives have revealed that a third attempt to gain access to Ms Dando's private documents was made shortly before her murder by an unidentified man.
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