A reporter was jailed for 4 months for listening in on phone calls made to and from the Royal Palace in the United Kingdom. This glares a mirror image reflection of Hewlett Packard a multinational company that hired investigators to get phone records of journalists.
Both events are invasions of privacy. The UK event has led to jail time for the reporter and the US event has led to congressional hearings and plea deals by lowly private investigators that didn't even know they were working for HP.
Regardless of whether or not the press is spying on someone or someone is spying on the press, the fictional notion of privacy is rapidly eroding away. It strikes me that as the world advances in technology and simultaneously continues to get more crowded that examples of this nature will become more severe and more prevalent. At some point privacy will not exist at all.
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