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October 3, 2014

Cracks are appearing in the dam of silence over police spying on journalists and their sources

By Dominic Ponsford

One month on from Press Gazette’s first revelation that the Met Police had secretly seized the phone records of The Sun we have more questions than answers.

The Met declines to reveal how often it seizes the phone records of law-abiding journalists in order to expose sources who haven’t broken any law.

Amazingly, it appears to be so blasé about hacking journalists phone records that it keeps not special record of doing so.

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