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Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/13/investigative-journalism-protecting-sources
Every call made, email sent and website visited is now being logged under new regulations. New regulations that came into force last week - requiring telephone and internet companies to keep logs of what numbers are called, and which websites and email services and internet telephony contacts are made - have left some wondering if investigative journalism, with its need to protect sources (and its sources' need, often, for protection), has been dealt a killer blow. This is the death of freedom on the internet.