Hidden cameras, microphones, and trackers are routinely being discovered in Whitehall offices, government cars, and diplomatic outposts, The i Paper has been told.
Finding bugs is “routine” across government sites for the dedicated “eavesdropping” unit within the Foreign Office tasked with finding covert devices.
The i Paper revealed this week that security officials found a hidden camera in a ceiling panel in a sensitive UK government building, renewing concerns about the threat of espionage by hostile states like China and Russia.
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There are around 70 staff working for the UK National Authority for Counter-Eavesdropping (Nace), understood to regularly sweep government buildings and sites for bugs.
