The Leveson effect: Sharp increase in police media leak investigations, relations with journalists at ‘all-time low’
HMIC figures show 98 press leak investigations in nine months during the Leveson Inquiry Compares to 302 in five years…
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Whistleblowing charity: Misuse of RIPA against journalists an affront to liberal values and the tradition of dissent
Ciara Bottomley, press officer for Public Concern at Work, the whistleblowing charity, has written this article in support of Press…
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‘Potential remedies’ being looked at by News UK over Vodafone’s handover of 1,700 staff phone records to police
News UK is looking at “potential remedies” after discovering Vodafone mistakenly provided the Metropolitan Police with the phone records of…
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Plebgate whistleblower: ‘Met hierarchy more afraid of upsetting politicians than looking after their own’
One of the Metropolitan Police officers who lost their job after the force's Plebgate investigation had "no idea" she had…
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Cleveland Police believed to have seized telecoms data to find media source
Cleveland Police blanked FoI on RIPA use against journalists Force did provide internal emails discussing IOCCO's RIPA inquiry Press Gazette…
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Four things Boris Johnson could do to tackle Met Police abuse of RIPA (and doesn’t)
London mayor Boris Johnson (pictured right, Reuters) is facing further questions on Metropolitan Police use of the Regulation of Investigatory…
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QC: Alarm bells should have rung with bugging of Sally Murrer, UK journalists need ‘shield law’ to stop RIPA abuse
The UK needs to pass a "shield law" to protect journalists and their sources from state grabs of their telecoms…
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Met chief Hogan-Howe denies journalist phone records ‘routinely’ sought – and says he is open to judicial approval
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has told MPs he is open to the idea that police access to journalists'…
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