<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>On the one hand, the Fourth Estate has always been a preserve of Democracy, and technology is empowering governments to suppress the usual democratic safeguards of journalism holding them to account.<br><br></div>On the other hand, we're all journalists now.<br><br></div>Kind regards<br><br></div>Paul Wilkins<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 April 2017 at 19:19, Brad Gould <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.gould@gmail.com" target="_blank">brad.gould@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I listened to the press conference and read the release on the afp website.</div><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature">The commissioner also took questions from journalists at the press conference and he seemed to consistently suggest the only error was that the warrant did not cover the journalist, and the totality of the breach consisted of a single telephone call - being caller, receiver, time and duration.  The target of the warrant was an AFP officer.</div><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature">So on the face of it that's a little hard to achieve if they accessed a journalists calling records.</div><div><div class="h5"><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-488805815239564515AppleMailSignature"><div><br></div></div><div><br>On 28 Apr. 2017, at 17:59, Eric Pinkerton <<a href="mailto:misterpink@gmail.com" target="_blank">misterpink@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>Are you reading a different press release to me?<br></div><div><br>On 28 Apr 2017, at 4:59 pm, Brad Gould <<a href="mailto:brad.gould@gmail.com" target="_blank">brad.gould@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">I thought that the "breach" was that the AFP had, inadvertently,
captured metadata about a Journalist, and that the active TIA warrant they were
working under did not have provision for such – as that is a special case per the Act
– a " Journalist Information Warrant".</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">The warrant was for an AFP officer's communication, who happened to call
a Journalist and therefor triggered a "breach".</span></p>

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