Did UK military data rules make a leak more likely?
19 July 2025
Featured in The Financial Times
Afghan data leak
The MoD, like many government departments, has not fully adjusted to the information age and often struggles to know how to properly handle data that is ‘sensitive’ but not quite at the level of ‘secret’,” said Matthew Savill, who worked for two decades as an MoD official and is now director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank.