hat media bosses want, too, though they have a fallback position based on new safeguards being implemented in Britain.</p><p>That would prevent access to the metadata of journalists or media organisations without a judicial warrant. There would be a code including — according to the explanatory notes of the British Bill — “provision to protect the public interest in the confidentiality of journalistic sources”.</p><p>In their meetings this week, the government team boasted of concessions in the new 