The secret security firm that you pay for

@bazzacollins

I hate paying for something and not knowing what it is, like one of those cryptically named transactions on a bank statement. Yet, UK taxpayers, we’re all paying for a secretive consortium of IT security companies called Vivace – and the Home Office is not keen to tell us what’s going on there.

Vivace first came to my attention when it was named as one of the “industry experts” consulted for the NSPCC’s highly dubious report into