Surveillance

Legislative changes mean UK security services including MI5 and MI6 must now obtain independent authorisation before accessing journalists' data collected through bulk surveillance techniques. The Investigatory Powers ...

Lawyers, journalists and activists who suspect they have been spied on by the PSNI have been urged to complain before an impending deadline. London lawyer Angus McCullough ...

The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is expected to rule by the end of the year on a case brought by Northern Ireland journalists alleging unlawful police ...

The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has today begun examining the PSNI surveillance complaint brought by investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey. The two journalists were ...

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has been granted permission to intervene in the PSNI surveillance case before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London. The IPT ...

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has instructed Belfast solicitor Olivia O'Kane as it seeks to intervene in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) proceedings examining alleged unlawful ...

A PSNI report on the use of covert surveillance against journalists and lawyers has not provided adequate reassurances, the Northern Ireland Policing Board has said. The 60-page ...

London lawyer Angus McCullough KC has been appointed by the PSNI to conduct an independent review of the force's alleged use of surveillance against journalists, lawyers and ...

The UK violated the privacy rights of two people whose communications were intercepted and accessed in the UK, despite them both being non-UK nationals living outside of ...

MI5 intentionally broke the law to acquire vast amounts of data on the UK public for more than a decade, a tribunal has heard. At the Investigatory ...

UK government plans to require judicial authorisation before intelligence services can intercept and retain confidential material held by journalists has been welcomed as a victory for press ...

Human rights lawyers are among tens of thousands of people whose phones were allegedly targeted with spyware made by an Israeli company and sold to law enforcement ...

A privacy rights group has succeeded in having part of a tribunal decision on the use of wide-ranging warrants by UK intelligence services quashed in its application ...

MI6 has been forced to apologise to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal after two of its officers asked court staff to return documents relating to MI6’s use of ...