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September 3, 2014updated 16 Sep 2014 10:23pm

Spying on journalists’ phone records to reveal their sources will encourage more scandals and cover-ups

By Dominic Ponsford

The police, security services and many other public authorities can secretly request the telecoms records of any news organisation or journalist to find and punish their confidential sources.

We found this out yesterday when the Met Police closing report into Operation Alice was released.

Such powers have been available for years, but this is the first time Press Gazette has learned of them being used against journalists and their sources.

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