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RIGHTS group Liberty secured a significant victory for a free press today during its long legal challenge against the government’s “snoopers’ charter.”
Now the government has agreed to bring in new safeguards to protect journalists from having confidential journalistic material accessed by the intelligence services.
Under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 — the so-called charter — agencies such as MI5 and MI6 have been able to search for and identify journalists’ sources by looking at data collected through bulk hacking without needing independent authorisation.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
