MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules

MI5 staff failed to follow the agency’s rules for accessing details of the population’s email, web browsing and phone use on more than 200 occasions over five years.

The deputy director of MI5, staff generally filled in a form later for special actions, but admitted: “In a very small number of cases there is no record of written authorisation.”

... and insists on collecting all data: “Without the haystack, one cannot find the needle.”

Privacy International lawyer Caroline Wilson Palow said: “Without written records of when such intrusive datasets are accessed, it’s impossible to know if safeguards were respected or if abuses occurred.”

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