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UK: Mass Surveillance: Intelligence Staff Sacked

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Dissent

Sky News reports:

A number of British intelligence staff have been sacked for inappropriately accessing personal information, it has emerged.

[…]

When asked by Sky News for further details about why intelligence staff were sacked, the committee’s spokeswoman MP Hazel Blears replied: “I think we say in the report that these incidents have been extremely rare.

“We also recommend in our report that these matters should be a criminal offence because we regard this as extremely serious indeed.

Read more on Sky News.

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