Britain’s spy agency doesn’t know where thousands of its memory sticks are

Politico Europe29 October 2026, 17:04 UTCUnited Kingdom

Intelligence agency GCHQ acknowledges its plan for keeping track of USB sticks and other devices with potentially sensitive data on were 'not sufficiently robust.'

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