{"id":2651,"date":"2016-04-14T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/australian-federal-police-admits-requesting-journalists-metadata\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:31:45","slug":"australian-federal-police-admits-requesting-journalists-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/australian-federal-police-admits-requesting-journalists-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Federal Police admits requesting journalist&#039;s metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gettyimages-456355884\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE0LzU1L0dldHR5SW1hZ2VzLjdkYWI2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/17bb5492\/5c4\/GettyImages-456355884.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Australian+Federal+Police+admits+requesting+journalist%27s+metadata&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F13%2Faustralian-federal-police-journalist-metadata%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F13%2Faustralian-federal-police-journalist-metadata%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Australian Federal Police have admitted for the first time they requested to access a journalist&#8217;s metadata, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/apr\/14\/federal-police-admit-seeking-access-to-reporters-metadata-without-warrant\">according to a report in <i>The Guardian<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report states the police were attempting to track down the confidential sources of the publication&#8217;s journalist Paul Farrell.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/12\/australia-meta-data-problems\/\">5 massive problems with Australia&#8217;s metadata retention regime<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The request for Farrell&#8217;s metadata was revealed when the AFP admitted to the privacy commissioner it had requested &#8220;subscriber checks&#8221; \u2014 access to telecommunications account details \u2014 and email records, according the <i>The Guardian<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Farrell had put in a request for his police files, as every Australian has the right to do, and received his file in February. The 200-page documents he received showed the Australian Federal Police had launched an investigation into one of his stories. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/13\/australian-federal-police-journalist-metadata\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/metadata\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Metadata<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/xLU3NcXx4mQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Federal Police have admitted for the first time they requested to access a journalist&#8217;s metadata, according to a report in The Guardian. The report states the police were attempting to track down the confidential sources of the publication&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/australian-federal-police-admits-requesting-journalists-metadata\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,1853,1112],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-metadata","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}