Surveillance

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA). Human rights group Liberty is taking judicial review proceedings against the law, also known as the Snoopers' Charter, on the basis that it provides for unlawf

Amazon is facing two lawsuits in the US over its storage of children's voices through its Alexa product, The Register reports. The lawsuits have been lodged in courts in California and Washington by guardians of the unnamed children, aged eight and 10.

MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years, the High Court of England and Wales has been told. At a judicial review of the intelligence service's activities, lawyers for human rights group Liberty said that MI5 had acknowledged internally that data was being mishandled.

A coalition of more than 50 civil rights groups, security experts and tech companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter calling on GCHQ to abandon proposals for eavesdropping on encrypted conversations. Under the so-called "ghost protocol", the providers of end-to-end e