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Cameron, Clegg Unite Over Data Concern
- The Guardian , Sunday, December 2, 2012 11:37 AM
The changes recommended by Lord Justice Leveson to the special treatment journalists are given under data protection laws have provoked the strongest concerns from David Cameron and Nick Clegg that journalism could be damaged. The provisions, in particular those that would place new restrictions on the media's wide-ranging exemptions in gathering personal confidential data under the 1998 Data Protection Act, led the prime minister to say he was "instinctively concerned".
