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Lawyer Warns Of Threat To Journalists
- The Guardian, Tuesday, July 8, 2014 1:46 PM
New data-handling guidance now under consideration would require reporters to warn public figures at the beginning of an investigation and then destroy their notes and phone numbers afterwards, according to a report in The Times. Media organisations have objected to the guidelines drawn up by the information commissioner's office as a result of moves, at European Union and UK level, to introduce greater protection for individual privacy.
