Vodafone may face charges over Greek phone-tapping

A Greek privacy watchdog today met to consider fining mobile-phone operator Vodafone over an illegal phone-tapping operation that targeted Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.

The seven-member body will consider the extent of the operator’s responsibility in the operation, which also targeted senior military officers, human rights activists and journalists, from just before the August 2004 Olympic Games until March 2005.