13.03.2015 - 11:04 [ Techdirt ]

Report Says UK Citizens Must Give Up Right To Privacy Because ‚Terrorism‘, Reveals Huge Secret Government Databases

As Techdirt has noted previously, the UK body nominally responsible for overseeing the intelligence services, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC), does little more than rubber-stamp what has taken place. The new ISC report „Privacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework“ (pdf) is more of the same. Here is its own summary of the findings: