Ecuador politician claims email hacking in smear
An opposition politician says electronic documents stolen from her email are being used by government media in a smear campaign in what could be the first case of a public figure's digital privacy being violated for political ends in Ecuador.
Martha Roldos, a former presidential candidate, told The Associated Press that she believes someone allied with or in the government stole the documents to target her for "character assassination" because of concerns about the investigative news agency she is working to create.
TV spots depicting Roldos as an enemy of the state began airing Monday night on a state-owned channel and a story in the government newspaper El Telegrafo last week presented what it called evidence that Roldos was trying to get U.S. help in hurting Correa's administration.
The reports quoted electronic documents that detail communications involving Roldos with groups such as the Open Society Foundation, which funds some independent media outlets in Latin America, and the U.S. government's National Endowment for Democracy.
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