Journalism post-Snowden: a simple guide to protecting your information & contacts
This guide is for members of the NUJ in the UK and Ireland and provides practical advice about how to protect your information and contacts.
Journalists should be familiar with the dangers of digital attacks, including those through hacking, phishing, surveillance and seizure, and take steps to protect themselves, their sources and their journalism.
The guide is divided into two parts:
Part I briefly explains why digital surveillance matters for journalists. It then offers practical guidance to assessing journalists’ threat and risk levels, and suggests measures that they should take to protect their data.
Part II delineates the changing legal situation. It outlines key laws deployed against journalists; the change of direction in media law; and the constant erosion of press freedom.