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Why a new court ruling matters for press freedom and privacy
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On Nov. 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit placed limits on secret government demands for journalists' online data, in a case brought by LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary. LinkedIn had challenged an order seeking journalists' data and a gag that blocked it from telling the journalists or their news organizations. Judge Harvie Wilkinson III, writing that “confidentiality of sources is the lifeblood of a free press,” remanded the case for the district court to consider narrowing both the demand and the disclosure ban.
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