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National phone company Deutsche Telekom spied on its staff for years to see who had unauthorised contacts with journalists, a former security chief at the company said yesterday.
Deutsche Telekom has admitted that it hired an outside firm to track hundreds of thousands of phone calls by senior executives and journalists to identify the sources of press leaks, but said the “ill-advised use of communications data” happened only in 2005 and probably 2006. However Hans-Juergen Knoke, who was responsible for security at Deutsche Telekom from 1998 to 2004, said that the illegal practice first began in 2002.
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