How GCHQ, the UK's intelligence service, has adapted to evolving tech and security threats and the challenges in recruiting and retaining its ~6,000 staff
David Bond / Financial Times : Tweets: @hare_brain , @hoofnagle , @estherbintliff , and @djbond6873 Tweets: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “Paul cites an example of a UK developer who has created a programme that can identify people from the small “envelope” of skin beneath the eyes. Software like this might, he says, be able to identify a person even if they are wearing a balaclava.” https://www.ft.com/... Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : FT: GCHQ “created a new programme that uses machine learning to identify the best internet access points for collecting data. It is based on the open-source algorithms developed by Google's artificial intelligence arm DeepMind...” https://www.ft.com/... Esther Bintliff / @estherbintliff : “In the past, you could characterise what we did as producing pieces of paper which we handed to government who could take action... Now we are the ones actually taking the action” This week's cover: @DJBond6873 reports on the growing power of GCHQ https://www.ft.com/... David Bond / @djbond6873 : @GCHQ is already the largest of the UK's spying agencies and in the digital age its role and importance is growing. I spent 6 days inside GCHQ, interviewing 20 members of its staff including the top spymaster Jeremy Fleming. This is my piece for @FTMag https://www.ft.com/...