The family of murdered former agent Denis Donaldson is sounding the alarm after discovering police secretly checked a reporter’s phone—part of Operation Mally—raising fears they too may have been surveilled. This revelation emerged through a BBC case involving journalist Vincent Kearney, who was compensated after MI5 unlawfully accessed his data, possibly linked to his Donaldson coverage. Though an independent review found no widespread PSNI surveillance of journalists since 2011, Operation Mally predates that. The PSNI has since ended the practice and claims no unlawful breaches have occurred since a major policy overhaul a decade ago.

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