United Kingdom - Prime Minister - journalism is not a threat to national security

Reporters without borders

After studying previously unpublished documents received from whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Guardian revealed yesterday that the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ described journalists as a “potential threat to security” and that the emails of many journalists were among the 70,000 emails it intercepted in a brief exercise in November 2008. Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) clearly has a strange view of journalism. “Journalists and reporters representing all types of (...)

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