Chief Executive of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thiam, 57, has lost his job over a corporate spying scandal. The Credit Suisse board voted to remove him at a meeting on 7 February. Some investors believe he has been forced out by the chairman Urs Rohner, 60. Major backers of the company …
At Guantanamo Bay, a pre-trial hearing for five detainees involved in the 9/11 attacks has revealed more details about the CIA’s torture programme. The military court heard from contractors involved in the programme. The defence team has asked to question fifty-two members of the torture teams, but the CIA has …
Following our report on Daniel Hale, we note that on 1 May, former National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) director, Robert Carillo, was appointed to the advisory board of Peraton. Peraton is an old and respected US company based in Herndon, Virginia. It employs about 3,000 people at various sites in …
You may think that spying is something that only effects professionals and that ordinary people don’t have to worry about it. Think again. The Barker family from New Zealand travelled to Ireland on holiday and stayed in an Airbnb apartment as many people do these days. Fortunately the father worked …
On March 29, the day after the key ECJ ruling about citizens rights (see http://spyingtoday.com/2019/04/10/zombie-rights/), Andrew Parker, Director-General of MI5 and Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who was responsible for the Jean Charles de Menezes killing, issued a joint statement. They said that “we do not have the resources …