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British intelligence moves to protect research universities from espionage
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum and other leaders briefed the Russell Group, a collective of the U.K.'s 24 leading universities, about spying against their institutions by foreign states.
Although no foreign states were identified in the government’s press release, numerous Western security agencies have expressed concerns about espionage from China intending to acquire intellectual property both for domestic commercial exploitation and for its military. A similar program is in place in the United States, where the National Counterintelligence and Security Center’s Safeguarding Science initiative attempts to help the research community “design measures to guard against the potential misuse or theft” of key technologies. Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, the chief executive of UK Research and Innovation — a public body that directs government funding — said: “In an increasingly complex geopolitical context it’s really important to find ways to enable high quality collaboration while also protecting national interests.
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