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| Subject: OZschwitz poLice have confirmed they have accessed journalists' communications records to investigate leaks Wed Mar 18, 2015 2:17 am | |
| Police have confirmed they have accessed journalists' communications records to investigate leaks despite the Abbott government's insistence that journalists are not the target of its new data storage laws.
After the Abbott government relented and agreed to give added protection to journalists under its controversial "data retention" laws, Attorney-General George Brandis insisted the laws were aimed at terrorists, paedophiles and organised criminals, not journalists.
He said Labor's demand that police must get a warrant to access journalists' communications "metadata" – such as the time and origin of phone calls they receive – for any investigation into journalists' sources was unnecessary. He said the government was agreeing only to win Labor's support for the reforms in the Senate.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/probes-of-journalists-communications-records-rare-police-say-20150317-1m1g9d.html |
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