At least 30 new complainants had requested to the civic court handling the phone hacking case of the UK unit of News Corp to participate in the civic trial set for June this year, Bloomberg said.
An industry expert urged US intelligence officials, including Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, need to address the people's concerns about their operations that involve collecting sensitive data, especially when it had already acknowledged that their agencies are not above the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
In the council's response to the growing violence happening in the Central African Republic, International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office will be investigating potential war crimes on humanity in the African region.
A legal expert and a former police detective said that the attention of the New York state law enforcement had given on the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman was largely because of his celebrity status.
