Tech, Trust, and Turmoil: A Day of UK Exposés and High-Stakes Chess

A Guardian investigation reveals that vast troves of highly sensitive UK police data—including criminal records, victim statements, and internal emails from over 40 forces—are stored on Microsoft Azure, a platform an official security assessment deemed vulnerable to "compromise" by foreign actors and the US government. In a 2017 meeting, officers accepted that "US government insiders" could see the data and it could be "transmitted...