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"Governments may argue that the treaty leaves room to refuse requests for mutual legal assistance where there are substantial grounds to believe that the request has been made to prosecute or punish a person based on their sex, race, language, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, or political opinions," warned Human Rights Watch.

British defence supplier Rolls-Royce Submarines has admitted that its staff intranet software was built by Russian and Belarusian coders - posing something of a security challenge.

According to The Telegraph, the firm then outsourced the job to Eastern European programmers and hid it from the Ministry of Defence by using the names of dead British citizens to get around national security rules.

After pleading guilty to serious security lapses, Britain's premier nuclear waste repository has asked for leniency from its judge.

While management claimed there was no evidence of a serious security intrusion, it admitted that mistakes had been made, following an investigation by The Guardian.

In 2019 serious failings in Ubiquiti's G4 security cameras meant that half a million devices were exposed to easy hijacking.

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