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===Gary McKinnon deportation===
Attempts by the United States government to extradite [[Gary McKinnon]], a British computer hacker, were campaigned against by the paper. In 2002, McKinnon was accused of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time"<ref name="bbcprofile">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4715612.stm |title=Profile: Gary McKinnon |work=BBC News |date=30 July 2008 |first=Clark |last=Boyd |access-date=15 November 2008 |archive-date=9 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009001817/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4715612.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. The ''Daily Mail'' began to support McKinnon's campaign in 2009 – with a series of front-page stories protesting against his deportation.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tobitt |first=Charlotte |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/some-of-paul-dacres-most-memorable-daily-mail-front-pages/ |title=Some of Paul Dacre's most memorable Daily Mail front pages – Press Gazette |publisher=Pressgazette.co.uk |date=7 June 2018 |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=25 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725153302/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/some-of-paul-dacres-most-memorable-daily-mail-front-pages/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May withdrew her extradition order to the United States. Gary McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp praised the paper's contribution to saving her son from deportation in her book in which she said: 'Thanks to [[Theresa May]], [[David Cameron]] and the support of [[David Burrowes]] and so many others – notably the Daily Mail – my son was safe, he was going to live.'<ref>{{cite news |last=Sharp |first=Janis |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2443371/Gary-McKinnons-mother-tells-10-year-battle-save-suicidal-Aspergers-son-US-jail.html |title=Gary McKinnon's mother tells of 10-year battle to save her suicidal Asperger's son from US jail |work=Daily Mail |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=4 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104212344/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2443371/Gary-McKinnons-mother-tells-10-year-battle-save-suicidal-Aspergers-son-US-jail.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Sharp |first=Janis |date= 2013 |title=Saving Gary McKinnon A Mother's Story |url=https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/saving-gary-mckinnon |location=London |publisher=Biteback |isbn=978-1849545747 |access-date=25 July 2018 |archive-date=25 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725153254/https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/saving-gary-mckinnon |url-status=live }}</ref>