The AFP commissioner, Andrew Colvin, says an officer unlawfully accessed a journalist’s phone records, which were held under the government’s controversial metadata retention regime. ‘What was accessed was the records of calls, not the content of those calls. Just the fact of the existence of the calls in the first place,’ he says. It should not have occurred. The AFP takes it very seriously and we take full responsibility for breaching the act.’• Federal police admit to accessing journalist’s metadata without a warrant

Source: The Guardian April 28, 2017 07:18 UTC