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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Dutch spies can tap reporters' phones

The Dutch secret service is, under certain conditions, allowed to eavesdrop on journalists. The Netherlands supreme court has upheld a ruling by the countrys' appeal court in a dispute between De Telegraaf newspaper and the Dutch state. It concerns the tapping of phones in 2006 of journalists Joost de Haas and Bart Mos after they published information about a criminal that came from confidential, classified material. (Via NIS)

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