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{{for|the British army operation in Northern Ireland in 1972|Operation Motorman}}
'''Operation Motorman''' was a 2003 investigation by the [[Information Commissioner's Office]] into allegations of offences under the [[Data Protection Act 1998|Data Protection Act]] by the British press.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/02/04/observer-seeks-to-distinguish-operation-motorman-from-the-phone-hacking-scandal/|title=Observer seeks to distinguish
The ICO first became aware of the scale of the problem in November 2002, when an ICO investigator attended a search under warrant of [[John Boyall]],<ref name=WhatPricePrivacyNow>{{cite news|title=What Price Privacy Now?|url=http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/current_topics/what_price_privacy_now.aspx|
The ICO later obtained search warrants for the Hampshire office of a private detective Steve Whittamore.<ref name=Guardian21Sept>{{cite news |title=Newspapers used me as fall guy, says convicted private eye |author=James Robinson |url=
In February 2004, four suspects
In September 2011, former policeman Alec Owens, the original lead investigator of Operation Motorman, criticised the senior management of the ICO for the way in which the investigation was handled. He stated that investigators were prohibited from interviewing journalists and alleged that this was because the management "were frightened". He said that had the team been allowed to question journalists the use of phone hacking might have been uncovered earlier.<ref>{{cite news |title=Exposed after eight years: a private eye's dirty work for Fleet Street |
On 9 April 2012, right-wing political blogger [[Paul Staines]] published information on over 1,000 [[News International]] requests to Whittamore from the Operation Motorman files.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/apr/10/operation-motorman-guido-fawkes|work=The Guardian|title=Operation Motorman: Guido Fawkes under fire over publication of files|last=Halliday|first=Josh|date=10 April 2012}}</ref> The day before the files were released ''[[The Guardian]]s''' "Media Monkey" column had reported rumours that Staines was going to release the files, and was preparing to fly to Ireland to escape the jurisdiction of the [[English courts]].<ref name="GuardApr12">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2012/apr/08/media-monkey-diary?newsfeed=true|title=Media Monkey: Sands slow to start at Standard, and what has Samantha Brick been up to?|work=The Guardian|access-date=2012-04-09|date=2012-04-08}}</ref>
== References ==▼
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== See also ==
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* [[Metropolitan police role in phone hacking scandal#Operation
* [[News International phone hacking scandal#Information Commissioner's report]]▼
* [[News media phone hacking scandal#Early investigations (1990s–2005)]]
* [[Operation Elveden]]
* [[Operation Glade]]
* [[Operation Rubicon]]
* [[Operation
* [[Operation Weeting]]
▲* [[News International phone hacking scandal]]
* [[Phone hacking scandal reference lists]]
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