**UK counter-eavesdropping agency gets slap on the wrist for eavesdropping**
If you give the state a surveillance power it will be recklessly or wilfully misapplied, misused, or otherwise abused.
> UK NACE is tasked with protecting the country’s most sensitive information and sites both in Britain itself and in embassies around the world. As part of this duty, the agency was given new powers back in October 2021 to acquire communications data — the legal term for metadata — in the interests of national security.
> The new powers came with increased oversight. According to the 2022 annual report of the oversight body — the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) — published Monday, UK NACE had a “a high incidence of errors” and the agency was acquiring communications data without the appropriate authorizations.
> “Of most concern, we identified five authorisations (resulting from one single tasking) to identify a journalistic source in respect of which UK NACE had failed to seek the requisite approval from a Judicial Commissioner,” stated the IPCO report.
> Despite the lack of the necessary approval — intended to be a crucial safeguard for protecting journalists’ sources — UK NACE was successful in acquiring this data, although it was not able to identify a journalistic source.<a href="https://therecord.media/uk-nace-unlawful-surveillance-journalistic-source">https://therecord.media/uk-nace-unlawful-surveillance-journalistic-source</a>;
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