Secret Afghan relocation scheme set up after major data breach
The previous government may have established a hidden Afghan displacement plan after accidentally leaking personal data of thousands of people.
After the country’s seizure, a data set containing the details of the details of approximately 19,000 people who applied to the UK was released in February 2022 by a British defense official.
The Ministry of Defense (MOD) learned a violation that some details were published on Facebook in August 2023.
In response to the leak, the government has created a secret re -settlement plan, which sees that 4,500 Afghan had come to England so far.
The mode is expected to cost £ 400 million so far and cost £ 450 million to £ 450 million.
The existence of this Afghan response route, established in April 2024, was kept confidential with a precautionary measure, but now it can be notified after the Supreme Court decision on Tuesday.
The unauthorized data violation was processed by an anonymous individual in MOD, and potentially included the names of many Afghan, who were at risk from the Taliban.
Speaking at the House of Commons, Defense Minister John Healey confirmed that the government had closed the plan, but he would honor the offers to people in Afghanistan.
He presented a “sincere apology” to those who were included in the leakage.
The leak said it was a result of an e -mail sent by E -POSTA with E -POSTA, which he described as a “serious department error” as “a serious department error”.
Healey said the leak was “one of many data losses” about the Afghanistan evacuation at that time.
The leaked document contains the names, personal information and some family details of the applicants.
Mod refused to say how many people were arrested or killed due to data violation.
Healey said that a deputies found an independent examination of an independent investigation that an individual will only be targeted because they appear only in the leakage document and that the secret plan decided as a “extremely important intervention” given the “potentially limited” risk of the secret plan.
He also said that those who moved to England are already counted in the immigration figures.
The data included the names of the applicants for the Afghan displacement and charity policy (Arab) program. As the US troops completed their withdrawal in August 2021, the United Kingdom founded the applications of the people of the Taliban from retaliation from the Taliban and carrying them to England.
The Arab has been criticized in the last years since it was launched and the 2022 investigation by the Foreign Affairs Committee found that it was “disaster” and “betrayal”.
A Superinjunction had prevented the emergence of the leak, but today it was abolished by a judge in the royal justice courts.
Healey, the house, “unprecedented” precautionary precautionary decision of the violation even because of his speech was blocked, he said.
Justice Chamberlain, who read a summary of his decision in court, said that the order of Gaging “leads to serious free speech concerns”.
“Superinjunction had the effect of completely closing the ordinary accountability mechanisms operating in a democracy.
“This led to what I described as ‘review gap’.”
