Exclusive: officers in England no longer have to verify whether new arrivals have received a negative Covid test Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Border officials are no longer required to make basic Covid checks on people arriving in England from green and amber list countries, according […]
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Disclosures about political figures put Israel under increasing pressure over extent of surveillance Back in 2017, few would have disputed that Israel and Saudi Arabia were regional foes. Officially, the countries had no diplomatic ties. Yet for a small group of Israeli businesspeople attending secret meetings with Saudi officials in […]
Locals fear for their health and property as smoke from raging forest fires shrouds an entire region of eastern Russia ‘Airpocalypse’ hits Siberian city as heatwave sparks forest fires Every morning and evening for the last few days, shifts of young villagers have headed out into the taiga forest around […]
Indian prime minister under fire after phone numbers of political rivals appear in data leak Narendra Modi’s government has been accused of treason and “unforgivable sacrilege” by the political opposition in India following a series of reports by the Pegasus project revealing several journalists, activists and an opposition election strategist […]
Concerns that phone-hacking software may have been used to spy on political opponents spark fury Revelations about the use of spying tools sold to governments by NSO Group sparked furious political rows across the world on Monday after evidence emerged to suggest the surveillance firm’s clients may have sought to […]
Ministers hope move for venues such as nightclubs will boost vaccine uptake among young people Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Vaccine passports will be compulsory to enter packed venues such as nightclubs in an extraordinary U-turn announced by Boris Johnson hours after clubs were allowed to […]
The iPhone maker says it is keeping pace with malware, but the Pegasus project paints a worrying picture It is one of the technological battles of the 21st century – in which every mobile phone user has a stake. In one corner, Apple, which has more than a billion active […]
NSA whistleblower warns of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers if no action taken Governments must impose a global moratorium on the international spyware trade or face a world in which no mobile phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers, Edward Snowden has warned in the wake […]
Data leak and forensics suggest NSO’s surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world’s top media companies The editor of the Financial Times is one of more than 180 editors, investigative reporters and other journalists around the world who were selected as possible candidates for surveillance by government clients […]
The Pegasus project poses urgent questions about the privatisation of the surveillance industry and the lack of safeguards for citizens Today, for the first time in the history of modern spying, we are seeing the faces of the victims of targeted cyber-surveillance. This is a worldwide scandal – a global […]