Britain Cites Grave Risks in Leaked Data It Seized
By KATRIN BENNHOLD, NYT
LONDON — A standoff between the British government and The Guardian over national security and press freedom entered its latest round on Friday when the high court extended police powers to analyze encrypted material seized from the partner of one of the newspaper’s journalists this month.
The decision, which slightly expanded the authority of the police to investigate the digital files, came after a senior national security adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron told the court that a computer hard drive and memory sticks confiscated from David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for The Guardian, may contain the identities of intelligence officers.
The adviser, Oliver Robbins, said in a written statement that the information could put the officers and their families at risk, or even make them vulnerable to recruitment by foreign intelligence services.
The 13-page statement was the first detailed explanation that the government had provided for its detention of Mr. Miranda at Heathrow Airport on Aug. 18. He was questioned for nearly nine hours under terrorism legislation, and encrypted digital files he was carrying were seized.
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LONDON — A standoff between the British government and The Guardian over national security and press freedom entered its latest round on Friday when the high court extended police powers to analyze encrypted material seized from the partner of one of the newspaper’s journalists this month.
The decision, which slightly expanded the authority of the police to investigate the digital files, came after a senior national security adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron told the court that a computer hard drive and memory sticks confiscated from David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for The Guardian, may contain the identities of intelligence officers.
The adviser, Oliver Robbins, said in a written statement that the information could put the officers and their families at risk, or even make them vulnerable to recruitment by foreign intelligence services.
The 13-page statement was the first detailed explanation that the government had provided for its detention of Mr. Miranda at Heathrow Airport on Aug. 18. He was questioned for nearly nine hours under terrorism legislation, and encrypted digital files he was carrying were seized.
(More here.)
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