Watchdog says failures of police service,which intercepted communications without judicial approval, were reckless’Police Scotland has been described as “reckless” by a privacy watchdog that found it breached the law on intercepting communications five times to spy on journalists’ sources.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner’s Office (IOCCO) found that Police Scotland had used powers without judicial approval to intercept phones and emails to discover either a journalist’s source or communications of those suspected to bear been acting as intermediaries between a journalist and a suspected source. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com