Those with the most powerful jobs in the country are all too happy to misuse their positions when it comes to spying on innocent people.
But when the tables are turned they are not so keen to share information about themselves – even if it is crucial for helping to learn lessons and make changes for the future. Health chiefs at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde used a covert spying technique to monitor grieving widow Louise Slorance who has been fighting to find out the truth about her husband Andrew’s death while at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2020.
Today we have revealed that not only were those NHS officials scouring the depths of the internet to spy on Louise and any mention of her husband’s name online, they have been paying a private company using taxpayers’ cash to do so. Despite admitting this the health board will not say what the cost of the spying exercise is or which firm has been given the contract.
