Rebecca Vincent, who heads RSF’s campaigns, has no doubts: “We have tracked case of authorities forcing journalists to disclose passwords or otherwise interfering with their devices in every region of the world, from western democracies to more authoritarian regimes”

why is the word “authoritarian” such a fan-favorite in the west to describe everyone but themselves… the word itself doesn’t make sense… wouldn’t it mean every governing body of every country is “authoritarian”?

The British police do not dispute that Medhurst is a journalist and that the seized phones are tools used in the journalistic profession, the problem is that they nevertheless demand access to the data […]

it’s like they didn’t bother to put up a mask… “don’t care, didn’t ask”