The documents were released as part of a court case undertaken by Liberty against the Home Office. MI5 may have illegally held large volumes of private data without adequate protection, according to documents released in the Home Office during a case being brought against Liberty by civil liberties organisation the High Court . MI5 's internal documents revealed failures to comply with standards surrounding the storage of personal data and that the security agency failed to act on the breaches despite being aware of them for March . A letter from an MI5 director in 2016 revealed that the agency was aware of data being held in "ungoverned spaces" in 2016 but that resolving the issue had proved too large a task.
MI5 may have illegally held large volumes of private data without adequate protection, according to documents released in the Home Office during a case being brought against Liberty by civil liberties organisation the High Court . MI5 's internal documents revealed failures to comply with standards surrounding the storage of personal data and that the security agency failed to act on the breaches despite being aware of them for March . A letter from an MI5 director in 2016 revealed that the agency was aware of data being held in "ungoverned spaces" in 2016 but that resolving the issue had proved too large a task.