MI5 unlawfully collected and held millions of people’s data | Computer Weekly
UK security service MI5 unlawfully gathered and retained millions of people’s private data, Britain’s most secret court has ruled in a landmark case…
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MI6 chief’s hacked emails attacked MI5 and betrayed British spy operations in China
Emails published by Russian hackers and systematically analysed by Computer Weekly reveal that in January 2020 the former “C” (chief of the Secret…
Secret court asked to quash a decade of MI5 surveillance warrants following ‘systemic…
Warrants for bulk surveillance of UK citizens have for more than a decade been obtained illegally and should be quashed, a tribunal has heard.Human…
Home Office ‘unlawfully’ approved MI5 bulk surveillance warrants
The Home Office has unlawfully allowed MI5 to gather vast amounts of the public’s data by wrongly approving bulk surveillance warrants, Britain’s most…
MI5, FBI chiefs warn of Chinese cyber espionage threat
Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, and Chris Wray, director of the US’s FBI, have warned of the growing threat posed by the ruling Chinese…
FBI and MI5: ‘The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology’
The heads of the FBI and UK domestic security service shared a platform for the first time to issue dire warnings about the threats posed by the Chinese…
‘Spy cops’ inquiry delves into police relationship with MI5
There was “no legal justification” for the information gathering and sharing practices of undercover police officers during the 1970s, which became…
MI5 chief warns Facebook encryption gives ‘free pass’ to suspects
MI5 chief says extremism on social media is growing and criticized Facebook plan to roll out end-to-end…