UK intelligence watchdog says MI5 spies broke dozens of privacy rules… by ‘mistake’

‘British spies have been censured by the government’s intelligence watchdog for breaking dozens of agency rules last year, including failing to obtain authorization to conduct surveillance and plugging cell phones into computer systems.
Security services failed to follow procedures on 83 occasions, twice the number of mistakes made in 2014, the watchdog’s report stated.
Intelligence Services Commissioner Sir Mark Walter said that all of these errors had led to an intrusion into privacy “to some degree.”’
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