UK: The Miranda Case and the protection of journalistic material
UK: The Miranda Case and the protection of journalistic material
Lorna Woods
David Miranda is a freelance journalist who had worked on the Snowden stories for the Guardian newspaper. He was stopped and questioned for 9 hours at an airport in the UK; items in Miranda’s possession (encrypted storage devices containing information leaked by Edward Snowden about the activities of security services) were taken from him.
The interception was based on para 2(1) of Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000, which allows the police to stop and question a person at a port or border area for the purpose of determining whether…