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The National Union of Journalists has told parliament that police misuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to snoop on journalists and their sources is "systemic and institutionalised" and is doing "irreparable damage" to the industry.
Michelle Stanistreet, the NUJ's general secretary, told the home affairs select committee that police were routinely bypassing the need for judicial scrutiny to discover journalistic sources by using Ripa to go through phone records and other data.
Lawyers acting for an Icelandic interior ministry official are asking for two journalists to be jailed because they mistakenly named her as a target in a police investigation.
In June, the journalists - Jón Bjarki Magnússon and Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson -identified Þórey Vilhjálmsdóttir, a political assistant to Iceland's interior minister, as a government leaker known as "employee B". They were wrong.
The National Union of Journalists has told parliament that police misuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to snoop on journalists and their sources is "systemic and institutionalised" and is doing "irreparable damage" to the industry.
Michelle Stanistreet, the NUJ's general secretary, told the home affairs select committee that police were routinely bypassing the need for judicial scrutiny to discover journalistic sources by using Ripa to go through phone records and other data.
Jeremy Bowen, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, has said the threat from Islamic State(Isis) has made "even the most enterprising and daring reporters" think hard about whether working in Syria is worth the risk.
Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor, described the conflict in Syria as "extraordinarily difficult and at times dangerous" for journalists.
