BMO counsels Centamin over proposed Endeavour merger
Days after taking up his new job as head of [...]
As a result of the European Court of Human Rights' Big Brother Watch ruling, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office has, for the first time, looked into some of the GCHQ's bulk data collection, storage and processing protocols. Moreover, despite having pulled out of the EU, the UK is still bound to the European Court of Justice's La Quadrature du Net ruling. [...]
On the eve of new talks between Beirut and the International Monetary Fund, held with the aim of seeing the release of a long-awaited financial bailout, many obstacles remain. Foremost among them are the delays to crucial audits, including the one conducted by US auditor Alvarez & Marsal. [...]
Ukrainian interceptions specialist Altair-775, which is to supply its new secure information system to Ukraine's SBU internal intelligence service, is also a leading distributor for Western companies including France's Thales group. The company is also a long-standing partner of Swiss firm Crypto AG, which is close to the CIA and other Western intelligence services. [...]
The French justice ministry has chosen French companies Cerbair, KEAS and Nuances Technologies to install anti-drone systems at French prisons. Its choice of companies is not particularly surprising but will have a structuring effect on the French anti-drone market as it waits for the much bigger contract for the defence ministry's Parade programme to be awarded. [...]
Despite the insistence of its international partners - the US, the UE, the G7 and IMF - Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecution service, the SAPO, still has no one at the helm. #Ukraine https://t.co/US3WtPRkNY
📣 The flamboyant businessman Khalifa bin Butti Al Muhairi’s path towards building a cyber empire in the Gulf with help from Western partners appears to have left him bankrupt. #EAU https://t.co/kpdL4XLGFu
📢 #US While Frank Whitworth has a number of tasks awaiting him as head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Covid-19 pandemic has already prompted some big changes at the agency. https://t.co/8bDnpU0MLK