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For Distribution to CPs oeception and reminded editors that they must take care to ensure that contributors’ material has been obtained in compliance with the Unaathorieed removah A weekly newspaper reporter used a false identity to join a community websita and download a picture of a poNceman charged with possessing indecent images of children. The policeman complained that this was unauthorised removal of a photograph, obtained by subterfuge. He also c~mmeo the news0eper’s reporting and publication of his address had distresseo his mother -- with whom he lived -- thus intruding into shock, m m~e, pendent Repo:~ 5X 2#02) breach of C,l÷~se 5 breached theCode. CoD~ymoF~ v 7he ~ur ~noM ~b" 20.r;4, Humour misfired again when a journalist rang companies asking if any of them would pay a retainer in return for favoureble publicity, in order to run a light-hearteo piece on their response& The subsequent article said that a Railtreck spokeswoman had sounded shocked, but agreed to get back to the journalist. The PCC upheld the complaint -- ruling that, while humorous, the article might have left the Impression that Rai]track had not entirely rejected the proposal. The press office had been misled and there was no public interest m doing so. ~’~mwa .~, n£; ~ s’7~ However, the PCC decided that downloading a picture that could Back door, or front: Another test is whether undercover methods be accessed simply by logging on to a public wobsita did not amount are actually necessary or whether the material could be obtained ~o removal, and the relatively minor subterfuge used was justified in the public interest. The Commission sympathised with the mother but sale her vulnerability did not entitle her son to greater privacy than might be expected by others accused of a serious offence i~/’÷fh~tic~ ~ Counhv Ti~s ~
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