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Features in this issue

• Would you hire a hacker?

  by  Cath Everett

  At a time when cyber security breaches are on the up and skills remain in short supply, security experts believe we may be missing a trick by overlooking unconventional sources of talent

• MI5 made multiple applications for phone data to identify BBC journalist’s sources

  by  Bill Goodwin

  MI5 discloses it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists

• Interview: Chris Belasco, chief data officer, City of Pittsburgh

  by  Mark Samuels

  Building data pipelines – the ‘connective tissue’ – is helping to improve operations and deliver better public services in the City of Pittsburgh