[ecrea] New Report: Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age

      *Information Law and Policy Centre launches new report*:
      */Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age/*

The emergence of an everyday digital culture and the increasing use of 
legal instruments by state actors to collect and access communications 
data has led to growing concern about the protection of journalistic 
sources and whistleblowers.

With the support of Guardian News and Media, the Information Law and 
Policy Centre has published a new report to consider these developments 
entitled ‘/Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age’/. The 
report is open access and available for download 
<http://infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2017/02/Sources-Report_webversion_22_2_17.pdf>.

Authored by Dr Judith Townend and Dr Richard Danbury, the report 
analyses how technological advances expose journalists and their sources 
to interference by state actors, corporate entities or individuals.

The report also looks at how journalists can reduce threats to 
whistleblowing; examines the rights and responsibilities of journalists, 
whistleblowers and lawmakers; and makes a number of positive 
recommendations for policymakers, journalists, NGOs and researchers.

The report’s findings are based on discussions with 25 investigative 
journalists, representatives from relevant NGOs and media organisations, 
media lawyers and specialist researchers in September 2016.

/Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age/ was officially 
launched on 22 February 2017 at the House of Lords.

  * Download the report here

<http://infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2017/02/Sources-Report_webversion_22_2_17.pdf>
  * Download the update here

<http://infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2017/02/Update-Protecting-Sources-and-Whistleblowers-in-a-Digital-Age_22_02_17.pdf>
  * Press coverage of the report here

<http://infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk/press-coverage-of-protecting-sources-and-whistleblowers-in-the-digital-age-report/>

Alongside the report, the Information Policy Law and Policy Centre has 
also published a range of open access resources on journalistic sources 
and whistleblowing which are available here 
<http://infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk/source-protection-report-2017/>.

*/Acknowledgements:/*///to Dr Andrew Scott (LSE) and Gillian Phillips 
(Guardian News and Media) for their input to the report (though errors 
remain the authors’ own); and to Dr Daniel Bennett, Jenna Corderoy and 
Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals for additional research assistance./


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