MI5, the UK’s domestic security and counter-intelligence agency, has “lost control” of mass data sets, with a government lawyer admitting to a court this week that MI5’s description of the problem as “compliance difficulties” was a “misleading euphemism”. MI5 has the authority under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) – under warrants issued by “Judicial Commissioners” – to carry out “bulk surveillance”:

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