Exclusive: Tony Blair’s government allowed America to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Police say there are no further active lines of inquiry and still can’t fully explain how Mr Williams got into the bag and locked it without leaving traces of DNA or hand prints on the bath.
Revelations about British and American surveillance operations have played into the hands of terrorists who are “rubbing their hands with glee”, the heads of Britain’s intelligence agencies tell MPs.
The heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ says media coverage of former US spy Edward Snowden’s leaks have made their jobs harder.
How much do we know about the spymasters who stepped out of the shadows to face the television cameras? Channel 4 News has the scoop on the snoopers.
I’m down in Bude, in Cornwall, trying to find out what people think of the local GCHQ outpost’s spying on transatlantic data traffic.
New claims the NSA secretly “copied data flows” between Yahoo and Google are denied by the US intelligence agency.
The head of MI5 condemns the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, saying his revelations endanger the ability to protect the country from terrorism.
Can you break the code to become a spy? GCHQ attempts a new recruitment drive to target top code breakers, mathematicians and “ethical hackers” as it tries to move beyond the Prism scandal.
US and UK spy agencies have cracked internet encryption giving them wide-ranging access to supposedly secure internet data, according to further revelations from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Claims that GCHQ used private data from United States security agencies to circumvent the law are baseless, Foreign Secretary William Hague tells the Commons.
The foreign secretary insists Britain’s GCHQ listening post has not been using America’s Prism internet monitoring system to get around legal restraints on surveillance.
Britain’s GCHQ listening post will give parliament’s intelligence and security committee full details of its links to the American Prism programme, according to chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain’s national interests to do business with people we don’t like.
MI6 in particular has suffered some hard reputational knocks and doesn’t like it. Mr Hague is trying to shape the debate about it in the media, by giving those who write and comment on it a better idea of how it works, as Jonathan Rugman reports.