They also show that the spy agency was aware of breaches of compliance over several years, yet failed to act. MI5 may have illegally stored large volumes of private data without adequate protection , according to documents released in the High Court during a case being brought against the Home Office by civil liberties group Liberty . 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 several years . A letter from an MI5 director in March stated that the agency was aware of data being held in " ungoverned areas " in 2016 but that resolving the issue had proved too large a task .
MI5 may have illegally stored large volumes of private data without adequate protection , according to documents released in the High Court during a case being brought against the Home Office by civil liberties group Liberty . 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 several years . A letter from an MI5 director in March stated that the agency was aware of data being held in " ungoverned areas " in 2016 but that resolving the issue had proved too large a task .