Bill Goodwin

A court has given the go-ahead to UK-based blogger Yusuf Al-Jamri to seek damages from the Kingdom of Bahrain after it deployed spyware from Israel’s NSO Group to hack his phone.

Chinese hacking of US telecom networks raises questions about the exploitation by hostile hacking groups of government backdoors to provide lawful access to telecoms services.

Swiss ePost chief Renato Stalder bets on encrypted communications as demand for letter delivery falls.

Lawyers for former heavy weight boxer Goran Gogic argue that US prosecutors’ reliance on messages obtained by a European police hacking operation into the SKY ECC encrypted phone network breaches the US constitution.

Labour-linked think tank calls for government to introduce low-cost schemes to boost innovation.

The Data Use and Access Bill will pave the way for sharing medical records across the NHS and give police the ability to access databases without having to manually log the reasons for their use.

Pro-democracy campaigner Yahya Assiri given permission to file legal action in London court against Saudi Arabia over its use of Israeli spyware.

A former detective wrongly claimed that a solicitor representing a journalist who had been subject to unlawful police surveillance attempted to buy a firearm, a tribunal heard.

A former senior officer at the Police Service of Northern Ireland is seeking legal advice following comments attributed to her during a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Barbara Gray, former assistant chief constable at the PSNI, said she was “deeply angered and offended” by comments attributed to her by a former detective who headed a leak investigation in Northern Ireland. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is investigating claims that the PSNI and other police forces unlawfully placed journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney under surveillance after they produced a documentary exposing police failures to investigate the murder of innocent Catholics by a paramilitary group. Former detective Darren Ellis emailed Durham Constabulary, claiming that a senior PSNI officer, now identified as Gray, had urged him to “exercise caution” when dealing with solicitors, barristers and members of the judiciary.

A senior police officer at the Police Service of Northern Ireland claimed that the provinces’ judicial system made “perverse” judicial decisions because of the disproportionate number of Catholics in the court system. Former detective, Darren Ellis, told his employer, Durham Constabulary that a senior PSNI officer had urged him to “exercise caution” when dealing with solicitors, barristers and members of the judiciary. The disclosure was made in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London which is investigating claims that the PSNI and other police forces unlawfully placed two Northern Ireland journalist under surveillance in an attempt to identify their confidential sources. Ellis claimed to have received the warning after agreeing to lead an investigation into the source of leaked information used by journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney in a film exposing police failure to investigate the  paramilitary murders of six innocent Catholics in Loughinisland, County Down.