"In addition to rifling through telephone records for a year from 2005 to 2006 to determine the extent of contacts between management and journalists, it now looks as though Telekom was also using mobile phone signals to keep track of their locations."

"For years, Deutsche Telekom hired outside companies to spy on journalists and members of its own supervisory board, hoping to uncover internal leaks."

"Lufthansa said it did an analysis of passenger movements in 1999 and 2000 to try to identify who on its 20-member supervisory board was regularly leaking information to [the FT Deutschland]."

John Naughton: "[ThinkSecret's Nick] Ciarelli is a student and a lone blogger, someone without resources who can be easily swatted. The blogosphere is full of such people, who sometimes publish stuff that is of public interest but which no mainstream outl

Rex Hammock on the Apple/Think Secret settlement: "Huh? ‘Positive solution for both sides’? There’s another side here. My side. (I’m speaking collectively for readers, of course.) And there’s nothing positive about this settlement for my side."

"In a ruling welcomed as a victory for freedom of the press, [the ECHR] has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published reports alleging fraud within the European Union."

"[T]he requirement that a ’substantial portion’ of a blogger’s livelihood come from gathering and publishing news will exclude most bloggers…"

"Indeed, US reporters might fare better in Britain. Both the Contempt of Court Act and European rights laws acknowledge the right to protect sources."

Norwegian journalists have debated the risks of adding sources as friends on Facebook.

"The Milton Keynes Citizen newspaper offices have been raided by police executing a search warrant as part of an investigation into leaks to the media."

"Three journalists whose private phone records were scrutinized by investigators working for Hewlett-Packard intend to sue the company for invasion of privacy."

The Economist quotes Josh Wolf: “The whole issue of whether or not I am a journalist is irrelevant: the first amendment was written to protect pamphleteers … This was my entry into the world of journalism … and a hell of an entry it was.”
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