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London’s Metropolitan Police were accused yesterday of hiding the truth about spying on journalists.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said that the Met had refused to reveal information about its use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to spy on journalists at trade magazine Press Gazette.
The Met had claimed it had the right to refuse “vexatious requests … which are intended to be annoying or disruptive or which have a disproportionate impact on a public authority,” according to the NUJ.
“It says a lot about our capital’s police force that they are refusing to provide basic information about the extent to their snooping and targeting of journalists,” said NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet
She suggested that they preferred to “hide in bureaucratic excuses rather than cough up and reveal the extent of how they have compromised sources and press freedom.
“Their response is outrageous and demonstrates just why this law needs to be scrapped.”
