[lucozade]

> Surely some laws in the UK were broken?

The surveillance in the embassy is in clear contravention of the Vienna Convention that the UK ratified on one proviso: that the surveillance wasn't sanctioned by the Ecuadoreans. If they did sanction it, it's not clear what, if any, law was broken.

The article states that there's evidence that the US also had laser surveillance outside the embassy. This would definitely be in direct contravention of the Convention regardless of whether the UK sanctioned it or not. I would say though that this appears completely at odds with the whole of the rest of the article: why bother when you're recording everything from the inside?

[toyg]

They might not have happened at the same time.

[lucozade]

The article says that it's US Global's worker who make the claim. So, at the very least, they're contemporaneous.