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- Fast-tracking the UK’s mass surveillance bill won’t keep Britons safe from terrorists
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Monday, 16 November 2015
Politicians in the UK are calling for the anti-privacy Investigatory Powers bill to be fast-tracked, in light of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. They are right to worry in the light of recent events. But fast-tracking the Investigatory Powers bill would only put in place a bulk data collection system that we are yet to fully understand and benefit from — and not a real solution to the problem at hand. More surveillance doesn’t equate to more intelligence. France already has laws that allow its security agencies to monitor phone calls and emails of citizens suspected of terrorist activity, without a…
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