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 …
Human rights took a small took backwards on 28 March. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that it is legal to arrest and detain people because of what security agencies say they “might” do. Now in some ways, this is not new law. It has already been established, for …
A conman who posed as an MI6 agent has been extradited to the UK from Switzerland. Mark Acklom, 46, defrauded a Gloucestershire woman out of her life savings of £850,000. He fled the country in 2012 while he was under investigation. He was arrested in Zurich in June 2018 and …
Some excellent investigative reporting from Associated Press (pub 11 February). Seven AP reporters based in seven different countries, working in conjunction with internet watchdog Citizen’s Lab of Toronto, have exposed an Israeli entrapment scheme. You can read the full report here: http://apnews.com/9bdbbfe0c8a2407aac14a1e995659de4. As well as being a fascinating and detailed …