RIPA report shocks industry, but leaves journalists targeted by police in the dark
The revelation today that 19 police forces have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to find journalistic sources has…
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Interception Commissioner: 82 journalists’ phone records grabbed by police in three years, judicial oversight needed
Some 82 journalists have had their communications data obtained by police under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in three…
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‘Vexatious’, ‘annoying’ and ‘disruptive’ Press Gazette barred by Met from asking more RIPA questions
The Metropolitan Police has barred Press Gazette from requesting information about its use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act…
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Earth calling Bernard, come in Bernard
Since the revelation in September last year that the Met Police had secretly viewed the phone records of law-abiding journalists…
By Met chief defends cover-up over extent force spied on journalists’ phone records
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has denied the suggestion his force misled journalists and the public over the extent…
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Rights to freedom of expression won by journalists over centuries have been lost in a few years
Britain’s rights to basic freedom of expression, which writers, journalists and free-speech activists fought for over centuries have been sacrificed…
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Two more journalists emerge as police spying targets, Press Gazette says: ‘We’ve been misled by Met’
The Metropolitan Police has apparently misled Press Gazette over the extent to which it used RIPA to spy on journalists…
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Questions raised over Met claim that Sun phone records grab approved by independent officer
Sun insiders have questioned the independence of the decision-making process around the Met Police accessing the newspaper’s phone records. The…
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