Police Scotland reveals 12 RIPA applications to find journalists’ sources
Police Scotland has become the first UK force to release details of how many times it accessed phone records to…
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Why it feels like the sky is falling in for those who believe in press freedom and openness
There are times as editor of Press Gazette when I feel like ‘Chicken Licken’, the children’s story character who always…
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Police publish reporters’ text messages as inspector faces misconduct charges for giving them stories
'Relationships' with reporters resulted in misconduct charge for officer Content of private mobile messages with journalists published by force Inspector…
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Interception watchdog confirms ‘reckless’ Police Scotland abuse of RIPA to find journalists’ sources
The government's interception of communications regulator has confirmed that Police Scotland unlawfully accessed phone records to find journalistic sources without…
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Cleveland Police accused of using RIPA to identify member of the public as journalistic source
Cleveland Police has been accused of using the phone records of a Northern Echo journalist to identify a member of…
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Cleveland Police accused of using RIPA to seize phone records of three Northern Echo journalists in leak probe
Cleveland Police has been accused of accessing the phone records of three regional newspaper journalists. The force allegedly used the…
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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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