08.10.2014 - 17:44 [ Techdirt ]

UK Police Abuse Of Anti-Terrorist Snooping Powers To Reveal Journalists‘ Sources Leads To Widespread Calls For Reform

Last month, we wrote about how the UK police used powers brought in to tackle terrorism and serious crime to snoop on a journalist‘s phone records in order to reveal his source. Last week, we learned that this was not a one-off: journalists at the UK‘s Mail on Sunday newspaper were also spied on using the same anti-terrorism law: