INDEX	February 2, 2023
Liberty and Privacy International have won a case against MI5 and the Home Office proving they have stored and handled data on members of the public illegally for years. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal recognised that the state not only failed to protect the right to privacy, but actively violated it. The data involved concerned members of the public most of whom are not alleged or suspected to have been involved in any crime or illegal activity at all. So how do the spooks determine who they should spy on? Annie Machon, a former MI5 operative, said anyone who attended three meetings of the SWP automatically got listed as a communist. There was a well known blacklisting organisation in the construction industry which supplied information to the spooks. Despite a court order its list of road protestors and green activists was destroyed, so we don't know who was on it. But they would have been doing a rotten job if they had not listed Katy Andrews, who I used to live with, since she was a Donga, a prominent network of road activists. Financial Times: Tribunal finds 'serious failings' by UK security agency over privacy safeguards Computer Weekly: MI5 unlawfully collected and held millions of people’s data Eastern Eye: MI5 spies unlawfully issued surveillance warrants for nearly five years – tribunal The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which did not mention specific cases or intelligence targets in its written judgment, said there had been “serious failings in compliance” by MI5 from late 2014 to April 2019. Reclaim The Net: UK Tribunal rules MI5 mass surveillance data was stored unlawfully The two human rights organizations said the cases revolved around MI5 mishandling data belonging to millions of people in an unlawful manner, and ...
INDEX Jonathan Brind		February 2, 2023