Green Party manifesto includes pledge to scrap RIPA and threat of Leveson legislation
The Green Party’s 2015 general election manifesto has called for the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to be scrapped, citing…
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Lib Dems in election pledge to provide UK ‘first amendment’ guaranteeing a free press
The Liberal Democrats are to set out plans for a legal right to protect journalists from state interference and end…
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Rusbridger: ‘Fractured’ press must remember ‘sacred oath’ to protect sources – ‘we are at beginning of this fight’
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has called on the UK’s “fractured press” to defend its “sacred oath” to protect sources. And…
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Ex-police chief: No return to ‘good old days’, no ‘informal’ relations, a ‘more honourable press’
The former media lead for the Association of Chief Police Officers said last night that there will be no return…
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Save Our Sources law comes into force: Police now banned from viewing journalists’ call records without OK of judge
Police officers are now banned from secretly obtaining the call records of journalists without getting outside approval from a judge.…
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Civil service ban on contact with journalists without ministerial approval ‘nail in coffin of open government’
The Government has been widely criticised for introducing new rules banning civil servants from speaking to the media without permission…
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Debate: How can the secret state learn to live with the fourth estate?
Journalists, surveillance and the police: How can the secret state learn to live with the fourth estate? Monday, 30 March,…
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New controls on police grabs of journalists’ call records set to come into force next week
A new law to curb police spying on journalists' phone records looks set to come into force next week. The…
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