GRASS
The General Responsible Authority for Scouse Security keeps the Republic’s data, networks and public bodies safe. Yes, we know what it spells. No, we are not changing it.
At a glance
- Executive Director
- Frederick Roth, “the Chief GRASS”
- Responsible minister
- Furfendale Yakubu MHP, Comptroller of Secrets
- Type of body
- Civilian
GRASS is a civilian body. The Republic has no armed forces, and nothing about GRASS is military. Its work is mostly the unglamorous business of keeping computers, data and public services secure, and its staff would like you to know that it is much more boring than it sounds.
What we do
Protecting yer NAN
Everything held behind your NAN is encrypted and is the sovereign property of the Republic. It is never sold, licensed or handed to a private company, and the register itself never leaves the island (Twenty-eighth Amendment). GRASS keeps it that way.
Cyber security
We protect the networks of the Government, the councils and the services owned in common, and we publish free advice for households and businesses on keeping safe online.
Scams
If someone has tried to scam you, by phone, text, email or on Strings, tell your local council office and they will pass it to us. Reporting a scammer is not grassing. We checked.
Vetting
We carry out security checks for civil servants and others working in sensitive roles.
How we are held to account
GRASS answers to the Comptroller of Secrets, who answers to the House Purple. Its work is bound by the Constitution like everyone else’s: general warrants are out, mass surveillance is not on, whatever it gets called and whatever it is supposedly for, and nobody’s letters, calls or messages can be read without a warrant from a judge naming them and the reason (Article 40).
Page last reviewed: 29 October 2029