{"id":117539,"date":"2023-10-05T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/eu-lawmakers-vote-to-bolster-protections-for-journalists\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T04:30:11","slug":"eu-lawmakers-vote-to-bolster-protections-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/eu-lawmakers-vote-to-bolster-protections-for-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers vote to bolster protections for journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117539\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEU lawmakers on Tuesday backed proposals to boost journalistic independence, but stopped short of pushing for a blanket ban on governments spying on reporters. The EU\u2019s Media Freedom Act was proposed by Brussels last year in the face of increased pressure facing journalists in countries such as Hungary and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation is aimed at protecting reporters from political interference, allowing them to keep sources secret and ensuring media pluralism across the bloc. The MEPs\u2019 vote stakes out the parliament\u2019s position on the draft law ahead of negotiations with the EU\u2019s 27 member states. Among the most controversial issues are exemptions foreseen for using spyware against journalists. Media activists have criticised EU states, led by France, for pushing to expand loopholes to allow authorities to spy on journalists in the name of \u201cnational security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The parliament\u2019s position limits the use of spyware as a \u201clast resort\u201d when journalists were involved in serious crimes such as terrorism or human trafficking, and says a judge must give clearance. That still falls short of a call by 80 media rights groups to vote for a total ban on using spyware against the press. But Romanian MEP Ramona Strugariu \u2014 one of the lawmakers in charge of the issue \u2014 insisted it meant governments were \u201ceffectively banned\u201d from using spyware to probe the work of journalists. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders backed the lawmakers\u2019 clarifications and called on EU countries to follow their lead.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has been put in the spotlight by a furore in France over the two-day detention last month of investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux for reporting on leaked documents claiming French intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt. Journalist groups decried an attack on press freedom after Lavrilleux\u2019s home was searched and she was arrested for questioning by agents of France\u2019s domestic intelligence agency. Lavrilleux has decried the EU legislation as \u201cone of the worst freedom-killing laws\u201d in the parliament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Another crucial \u2014 and disputed \u2014 part of the draft law concerns the moderation and possible deletion of journalistic content by online platforms. To avoid handing too much power to the internet giants, the law envisions setting tougher conditions for removing or restricting reports by media outlets. To meet that bar, the journalists must meet criteria such as being transparent about their ownership and be editorially independent. If a verified outlet is deemed to violate a platform\u2019s rules of use, it will get 24 hours to defend itself before anything can be done.<\/p>\n<p>French MEP Geoffroy Didier said that would \u201cconsolidate freedom of expression\u201d by stopping the likes of X, formerly Twitter, from deleting journalists\u2019 accounts. But big tech lobby, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, complained it \u201cerroneously introduces a loophole that rogue actors can abuse to falsely pose as media outlets and disseminate fake news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/tech-science\/eu-lawmakers-vote-to-bolster-protections-for-journalists\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/117506\/\">EU lawmakers vote to bolster protections for journalists<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[11714,555,274,2253,1903,1820,1067,655],"class_list":["post-117539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-bolster","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-journalist","tag-lawmaker","tag-protection","tag-vote","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}