The careless way Plebgate police helped themselves to journalists’ call records was a Stasi-style nightmare
Few would dispute that the police ability to access telecoms data with relative ease is an effective and necessary crime-fighting…
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Met reveals new secret court application to view journalistic call records since March law-change
A judge has granted the Metropolitan Police access to a journalist's phone records without their knowledge since the Save Our…
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Met press office provided journalists’ mobile numbers so police could view call records and find sources
The Metropolitan Police made a series of errors in secret applications to view the phone records of Sun journalists and…
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Sun tells tribunal that Met violated journalists’ rights with secret grab of phone records
The rights of Sun journalists were "unquestionably violated" when the Metropolitan Police secretly obtained their phone records, the Investigatory Powers…
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Met Police pays damages to model over details sold by officer to The Sun
A model has accepted undisclosed privacy damages from the Metropolitan Police over the sale of information about her by an…
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153 Met Police staff investigated over media leaks in ten years – probes more than doubled in Leveson years
Year Number of press leak investigations 2005 7 2006 8 2007 2 2008 10 2009 7 2010 10 2011 27…
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News Media Association expresses ‘deepest concern’ to IPCC over reporter harassment notice
The News Media Association – which represents the national, regional and local newspaper and magazine industries – has called on…
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Policing London: How eight BBC journalists spent a year embedded with the Met Police
For a year from September 2013, the BBC had a team of journalists embedded with the Metropolitan Police. Four teams…
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