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mo4ch:>UK home secretary wants closed hearing to keep MI5 security breaches secret from public and media | Mo4ch News

British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has applied for a secret hearing at the high court to prevent the public and media from finding out about the nature of “serious” surveillance safeguards breaches committed by M15.Javid has requested that the court hold a “closed material procedure” which would exclude both the media and public, to look into the failures by the intelligence agency in its handling of material intercepted under warrant, the Guardian reported.The home secretary said in a written parliamentary statement last week that MI5 had reported compliance risks “within certain technology environments used to store and analyse data, including material obtained under the Investigatory Powers Act.”The court heard on Monday that MI5’s compliance issues were ongoing and human rights organization Liberty said last week that the breaches were so serious that the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) sent a group of inspectors to MI5 to investigate.Also on rt.comBritain accuse…