European Council agrees to water down protections for journalists from spyware

The European Council agreed on Wednesday to seek to reduce the level of protections provided to journalists from government surveillance and spyware in a proposed law intended to safeguard media freedoms across the bloc. As proposed last September, the European Media Freedoms Act (EMFA) included prohibitions on surveilling journalists and their families, as well as

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