Ahead of the Women’s World Cup semi-final clash between Australia and England there was a “spy row” about secretly filming England’s tactics for the match. While the Australian team practised behind closed doors, the England team were on an open air pitch where they were closely watched by a cameraman …
On 15th August, three Bulgarians, Bizer Dzhambazov, 41, Katrin Ivanova, 31, and Orlin Roussev, 45, were remanded in custody on a charge of possession of forged documentation. The documentation included forged passports for a number of countries, press cards and clothing marked for the Discovery and National Geographic channels. It …
On 8 August there was a massive accidental leak of the names and units of all 9,276 serving PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) officers. Their details were on a spreadsheet which was disseminated by mistake. In the chaos followed, it was then revealed that there had already been an …
The UK intelligence agencies (GCHQ, MI6 and MI5) are campaigning for greater powers for themselves as they seek to ease the safeguards that control their access to people’s personal data. In 2016, the UK Parliament introduced legal safeguards after the Edward Snowden revealed that the intelligence agencies were using their …
On 24 February 2006, UK legal history was made. On that day, MI6 (UK Foreign Intelligence Service) agreed to pay three ex-servicemen £10,000 each in an out of court settlement having been accused of assaulting them. A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said: “The settlement offers were …