La Presse says Montreal police tracked journalist’s iPhone for months
MONTREAL — A Montreal journalist whose iPhone was monitored by police for months says he was outraged to discover he’d been “spied on” as part of what he calls an effort to identify his sources.
“I was living in the fiction that police officers wouldn’t dare do that, and in the fiction that judges were protecting journalists — and hence the public — against this type of police intrusion,” La Presse columnist Patrick Lagace said in an interview Monday.
“Clearly, I was naive.”
The French-language newspaper said it learned at least 24 surveillance warrants were issued for Lagace’s phone this year at the request of the police’s special investigations unit. That section is responsible for looking into crime within the police force.