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Privacy and surveillance
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Scottish broadband rollout firm linked to Pegasus spy spyware
One of the firms building broadband services across Scotland’s towns and cities is backed by a state-owned Emirati company
More than 10,000 data breaches by Scottish local authorities
Scottish local authorities have recorded more than 10,000 data breaches over the last five years, The Ferret can reveal.
Revealed: More than 200 data breaches at Aberdeenshire Council
A Scottish council which boasted of its high data protection standards had more than 200 data breaches in two years
Woman awarded £229,000 after deceit by spycop overseen by Scotland’s former police chief
An environmental activist deceived into an intimate relationship by an undercover police officer who operated in Scotland has been awarded
Salmon producer accused of ‘Big Brother corporate snooping’ on campaigner
A leading Scottish salmon producer hired a private investigator to snoop on a key critic of the fish farming industry,
Glasgow University criticised for investing in firm linked to Trump’s ‘inhumane’ immigration sector
Students have called on the University of Glasgow to divest from a company linked to Donald Trump’s US immigration
Safety fears over military drone test flights
Protests are being planned after the UK Civil Aviation Authority sanctioned the testing of a massive new military drone at
Named: 102 GP practices shared patient information with Data Loch project
Hundreds of doctors have shared their patients’ medical records with researchers through a controversial project called ‘Data Loch’. The UK
Facebook apologises after blocking Scottish CND’s website
Facebook has issued an apology to the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) after blocking people from accessing the peace
Facebook blocks users from Scottish CND’s website
The Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is considering an official complaint to Ofcom after Facebook blocked users from accessing
Privacy watchdog orders Police Scotland to up standards at mobile phone labs
Police Scotland has failed to meet official standards for gathering evidence from mobile phones four years after a watchdog first
Moray estate ‘illegally’ blocking land access, says MSP
A local MSP has accused the owners of a Moray estate of acting like “18th century feudal barons” by “illegally”
