That’s a good point but all have consented to us running the pictures (and James Coussey has died). You can find more about the private intelligence firms in the articles.

The @theguardian.com is investigating this secretive surveillance industry. Its operations extend from hunting down domestic abuse victims to gigs for Russia, China and other hostile powers.

Do you have information we should know? Reach me here tomburgis.com/about or send a secure message: (8/8)

These are just a handful of the surveillance operations taking place all around us every day in secret. For state agencies, there are strict rules. For private operatives, not so much... (7/8)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This time the client was a multinational salmon-farming corporation. Its unnamed owners were led by a moneyman who made his fortune in Moscow. (6/8)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

And another target: Don Staniford. Like Corin Smith, an activist exposing what goes on in Scottish salmon farms. (5/8)

The spy firm - ex-Para Damian Ozenbrook's Blue Square Global - says its work is lawful and proper.

Here’s another target. Corin Smith. He documents horrific conditions at Scottish salmon farms. He believes he was with his young child when this surveillance picture was taken. (4/8)

The spies' client? Oligarchs whose business affairs were under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. As Andy Slaughter, the chair of parliament’s justice committee, puts it: “The hunter has become the hunted.” @hammersmithandy.bsky.social (3/8)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Here’s a picture the spies took of Tom Martin. Like Coussey, a lawyer who had run some of the Serious Fraud Office’s most sensitive financial crime cases. (2/8)

In the U.K. @tomburgis.bsky.social & Maeve McClenaghan revealed how an online campaign urged far right to attack China’s opponents in UK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...