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Northern Irish police set up a clandestine unit to monitor phones of journalists and lawyers former PSNI assistant chief constable has claimed. Alan McQuillan, who left the PSNI in 2023 claims that a unit within the PSNI used a dedicated laptop to access phone communications data of hundreds of lawyers and journalists. He told the BBC Radio Ulster’s Nolan Show that a unit within the PSNI had set up a dedicated laptop, separate from other PSNI computer systems, allowing the service to avoid scrutiny from independent inspectors. The PSNI has said that it disputes the accuracy of McQuillan’s claims....Olvasni

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The head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) told a policing watchdog today that there had been “no industrial application” of surveillance powers to monitor NGOs, journalists or lawyers. Chief constable of the PSNI, Jon Boutcher, was speaking after human rights groups wrote to Northern Ireland’s Policing Board to ask it to open an inquiry into the PSNI’s use of surveillance powers to collect data from journalists’ phones. The Policing Board has been waiting for more than six months for the PSNI to provide information on covert surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland. The board’s request followed a complaint by journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over allegations they had been placed under police surveillance after producing a film exposing police collusion with a paramilitary group that murdered six innocent Catholics. The PSNI acknowledged at a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London on 28 February that it had unlawfully collected communications data from McCaffrey’s phone in 2011. It also emerged that police had monitored journalists’ phones in 2013 and 2018...Olvasni

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