Why thousands of Afghans were secretly relocated to the UK – podcast

Dan Sabbagh on the data leak that may have cost hundreds of millions of pounds – and put Afghan lives at riskThis week an email was sent to people in Afghanistan. It told the recipients, who had all worked for British forces in Afghanistan, that some of their personal data “may have been compromised”. All had applied for asylum in the UK, fearful because their work for Britain made them a target for the Taliban. Now they were told their asylum applications had been leaked into the public domain.They were advised not to take phone calls or respond to messages or emails from unknown contacts, to limit access to their social media, to consider closing their accounts, and to only go online via a private connection. Understandably, they were terrified. Continue reading...

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