Council now deploys online ‘Spy Accounts’ in covert surveillance of local...
Today’s edition of The Herald reveals, in a headline article on Page 6 by Stephen Naysmith, that Argyll and Bute Council has an embedded practice of using online ‘Spy Accounts’ (the council’s own term,...
View ArticleSpygate ABC: Investigation to be independent
Councillor George Freeman has extracted an assurance from the Council’s CEO that the planned investigation into their communications service’s online Spygate activities revealed in The Herald this...
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Spygate – the return of The Herald: Smith says it was like ‘a holiday account...
(Updated 17th February) Today’s edition of The Herald (11th February) sees reporter Stephen Naysmith with a follow-up story of his revelation yesterday that Argyll and Bute Council’s Communications...
View ArticleSpygate: Argyll First suggest bringing in the police
Deeply concerned by a volley of suggestions in the weekend national press as to exactly what the council might have been doing in the way of covert surveillance on its internal as well as its external...
View ArticleSpygate to Slimegate: Herald resurrects Smith’s role in Oban FM removing...
Today’s edition of The Herald sees Oban journalist Moira Kerr resurrect the story of Jo Smith, Argyll and Bute Council’s Communications Manager intervening – successfully – to pressure community radio...
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