I wonder if Paul MacMullen would be happy if some hack was listening in on his phone calls, or bugging his home. The way he crows about "21 years of invading peoples privacy" makes me wonder if he is actually proud of what hes done.
I also wonder what would be the reaction of the Murdochs if someone invaded their privacy, they would spend millions muzzling them by law, or maybe other means, esp as they have so much they would desperately NOT want made public.

I've spent most of my adult life avoiding reading the Gutter Press because of their tendency to hypocritically wring their hands over some salacious titbit while simultaneously slobbering over the sordid details - for the "edification" of their readers . The intent behind much of this is to maximise sales through titillation, appealing to the prurience and basest instincts of their readership .

Little or no regard was paid either to veracity or consequences, and irresponsibility was the order of the day, contributing to paediatricians being assaulted by morons who couldn't tell the difference between paediatrics and paedophilia and the death of at least one entirely innocent individual, misidentified by his assailants as a paedophile on the basis of a smudged and blurry photograph published in a Sunday paper .

In my opinion, Paul MacMullan is undoubtedly one of the most self-serving, obnoxious and unprincipled human beings ever to have crawled out from under a rock . The smug, arrogant, amoral and conscienceless evidence he has given to Leveson may well lead to the shackling of the Media and actually prevent investigation of matters of deep public interest .

Privacy is a basic human right, a cornerstone of the United Nations' fundamental statement of human rights, and his declaration that privacy is a cover for paedos is at best disingenuous - and at worst is a full frontal attack on those fundamental rights . As to "schoolyard tricks", those criminal offences should be investigated and prosecuted with all due diligence

Good riddance Mr McMullan.

Enjoy your new career working in BNP public relations.

He explained that journalists routinely hacked voicemails for the editors.

Does he exclude himself from such practice.

In the 1980's, on the way to and from work I passed the house of the first victim of the Hungerford shooting. Early morning and and late at night there was a press pack outside hounding the bereaved family. Disgusting. And it's got worse since the 80's. But I am also concerned that we maintain the freedom of the press.

Yes, a nasty, amoral little rodent. But then I'm afraid everyone who, week on week, bought the N.O.W. and avidly read the salacious stories inside - real or imagined - shares the blame. If you enjoy rolling around in rotting garbage, you'd better get used to attracting rats. You didn't know how they were getting the info? Yeah, right, as if you cared.

We all have feet of clay - politicians, actors, chief execs....and also nurses, plumbers, and the man and woman next door. We all sometimes do things we probably "shouldn't", strictly-speaking - but if nobody truly vulnerable's being hurt by it, is that really anybody's business but our own? And don't think it's limited to rampant males - recent DNA research into inherited disease has unexpectedly revealed that around 10% of all children in conventional families units are not related to the 'fathers' raising them as their own. Think about it - that's over 6 million in the UK alone, and curiously the figure is consistent in all nations and all cultures.

I'm not a religious man, but we'd do well to heed Christ's advice to those planning to stone an adulterer to death: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Nowadays stoning has largely been replaced by public hounding and humiliation in the tabloid press - but enjoying it, encouraging it, and effectively paying for it to be done for you by some low-life journalist is as cruel and hypocritical as chucking rocks yourself.

Vile acts require vile creatures, invasion of privacy either by phone hacking or computer hacking is a vile act and any decent person would feel the same, these people have no moral base and to state that privacy is the space required to do bad things is a warped opinion at best.
They say that crap floats, and it shure is floating to the top now, perhaps our government should think about using other countries prison services for these vile miscreants as it would be cheaper than the cost to the DECENT tax paying british public.
We all know the nightmarish conditions some countries run their prison systems and this would be an export some countries would see as an opportunity and a much better detterant than three hots and playstation in an open roam as you please cushdy british prison.

we get the life, luck, people, health, wealth and emotions we deserve
attitude is everything, the only evil is the belief we couldn't do evil
and evil happens only when good people do nothing and we have done nothing
you are part of the solution or part of the problem, there is no middle ground any more
"In 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never actually come across anyone who's been doing any good,"
human thought can turn any thinking into a pathological way or an inspirational way
everyone has a choice as to what kind of attitude they have to any problem and therefore you are exactly the kind of person you deserve to be, with all the luck that comes with it
it's never important what we do but far important why we have done it in the first place
the motivation behind the action, is where it is all at
there is not a single child in Britain that should respect an adult because we have given them a future of negative growth and recession based upon insurmountable international debt

what do you expect???
everyone is goody two shoes???
we got the journalists we deserve because we buy their trash
we got the newspapers we deserve because the politicians allowed little regulation
we got the politicians we deserve because we keep voting the same type in
we got the rioters we deserve because we put so little back into our communities
we got the food prices we deserve because we are addicted to supermarkets
we got the inflation we deserve because we are addicted to buying rubbish
which means we get the debt we deserve
we've become quantity based rather than quality based
as one climatologist said recently: humans are too stupid to do anything about it
we got the strikers we deserve because we have allowed the gap between the rich and poor to be greater than since the victorians
we got the banks we deserve because we give them our money (how many of you have moved your account to say the co-op? few i suspect)

Actually, much as I disagree with his ethics, he has a point about Paedophilia.
The fact that so much of the child abuse goes on in circles controlled and used
by high ranking politicians worldwide must be something he is well aware of.
He is conflating the right to privacy with the laxness of the judicial system
in regard to its ability to even begin to recognise let alone properly punish such behaviours.
What a horrible, horrible world to raise a young girl in.

Such an astonishing degree of arrogance and absence of insight. Is this person sociopathic?. A perfect illustration of the worst kind of journalism - so perfect it leaves me wondering if he is a stooge! Journalists everywhere must be cringeing, for he is surely not representative of the profession?

It's actually called 'wire-tapping' and it's a crime!