UK thugs [ used a journalist's phone call metadata to identify a source ]( http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/05/police-chris-huhne-reporter-phone-records ) , after a judge told them they were not entitled to that information. They used the notorious R.I.P. act, which was the death knell for privacy of communications in the UK. This law also makes it a crime not to answer thugs' questions.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_October_2014_%28Phone_call_metadata%29