According to journalists, senior officers used a law (often reserved for terror suspects) to reveal the names of protected sources who blew the whistle on two senior Met officials. The stories were printed in The Sun and the Mail on Sunday, two of Britain’s largest national newspapers. The law, known as the Regulation of Invest Powers Act (RIPA) was introduced in 2000, and specifies when authorities are allowed to access communications, particularly on the internet and mobile electronic devices. One of the allegations includes the intercepting of correspondence between the Sun’s political editor, Tom Newton Dunn, and officers providing...
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