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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Gagged, smeared, sued and threatened by the NHS – a media whistleblower tells his story
A former hospital executive who blew the whistle to the BBC over concerns about patient safety has revealed that he…
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‘It takes two to tango’: Met’s PR bosses on RIPA, hacking and rebuilding ‘trust’ with journalists
There have been widespread complaints from journalists of a chill in relations with the police since the 2012 Leveson report…
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Police Scotland appeared to break the law when it seized phone records in order to find the source of a…
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Two years after guilty Elveden plea, Sun’s Broadmoor source jailed for eight months
A former Broadmoor Hospital worker has been jailed for eight months for selling stories to The Sun about notorious patients…
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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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