BBC says ‘troubling’ Terrorism Act did not allow it to argue against giving reporter’s laptop to police
The BBC has said it did not resist the police seizure of a reporter's laptop because the Terrorism Act 2000…
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Scottish justice minister refuses to say whether police breached Save Our Sources law to view journalists’ call records
Scottish justice secretary Michael Matheson has refused to say whether he knows if Police Scotland is one of the forces…
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Sun editor Tony Gallagher: MPs backed press regulation Royal Charter motivated by ‘pure hatred of the media’
Tony Gallagher fears the Bribery Act would have prevented The Daily Telegraph from exposing the MPs’ expenses scandal. Gallagher, making…
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Police Scotland has breached Save Our Sources RIPA law on ‘multiple’ occasions, reports Sunday Herald
Police Scotland has reportedly breached the Save Our Sources law – preventing forces from obtaining phone records to find journalistic…
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‘Save your sources’, journalists told – make Subject Access Requests to discover police RIPA use
Journalists have been encouraged to make Subject Access Requests to find out whether police forces have secretly accessed their phone…
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Thames Valley Police has again refused to confirm or deny whether it has used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act…
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Police Scotland under pressure over RIPA allegations – and Nicola Sturgeon urged to ‘come clean’ over what she knew
Police Scotland is coming under increasing pressure over allegations it unlawfully snooped on journalists to find their sources. And Scotland's…
ByBBC journalist who investigated ‘screwed up’ police murder inquiry suspects force used RIPA to hunt his sources
A BBC journalist suspects that Police Scotland snooped on him without judicial approval to try and find his sources while…
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