GCHQ

MI5 deputy director general and long-serving intelligence expert Anne Keast-Butler has been named as the next director of GCHQ, succeeding the outgoing Jeremy Fleming. Keast-Butler, who becomes the first woman to lead the UK’s…

Companies could police encrypted messaging services for possible child abuse while still preserving the privacy and security of the people who use them, government security and intelligence experts said in a discussion paper…

Cyber security is failing to keep pace with generational global upheavals and is in need of significant investment and focus as a result, GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming has told an audience at Australia’s National Security College…

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming has reaffirmed a joint commitment with his US counterpart to “disrupt and deter” new and emerging cyber security threats. Fleming, alongside Paul Sanders, commander of UK Strategic Command, met with…

GCHQ’s bulk interception of communications data, including data about telephone calls and emails, unlawfully breached the privacy rights of UK citizens, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today. The court found that the UK’s…

To avoid a technological future dictated by hostile nation states, it is more vital then ever for the UK to invest in developing sovereign technologies in areas such as quantum cryptography, work with friendly countries to build…

In early March 2021, GCHQ released a whitepaper outlining its plans for the future. In response to the escalating threats faced online, the government intelligence and security organisation will increasingly use automated systems.…