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Fight against terror must mean the end of ordinary people’s privacy, says ex-security chief
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Tamara Cohen
Mail Online
February 25, 2009
Personal data of innocent citizens must be made available to the Government to combat terrorism, according to an influential former security chief.
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Sir David Omand, Whitehall’s former and security and intelligence coordinator, called for unprecedented Big Brother powers to allow access to private details - including phone records, emails and travel information - to be given to the intelligence services.
Setting out a hugely controversial blueprint for the future of national security he said ‘moral rules’ about individual privacy would have to be broken.
His 17-page report calls for the creation of a vast state database to gather information about terrorist groups which are increasingly recruiting and operating online.
But he argued that a citizen’s right to privacy would have to be sacrificed to allow ‘intrusive’ intelligence techniques.
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Fight against terror must mean the end of ordinary people’s privacy, says ex-security chief
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Tamara Cohen
Mail Online
February 25, 2009
Personal data of innocent citizens must be made available to the Government to combat terrorism, according to an influential former security chief.
* A d v e r t i s e m e n t
* efoods
Sir David Omand, Whitehall’s former and security and intelligence coordinator, called for unprecedented Big Brother powers to allow access to private details - including phone records, emails and travel information - to be given to the intelligence services.
Setting out a hugely controversial blueprint for the future of national security he said ‘moral rules’ about individual privacy would have to be broken.
His 17-page report calls for the creation of a vast state database to gather information about terrorist groups which are increasingly recruiting and operating online.
But he argued that a citizen’s right to privacy would have to be sacrificed to allow ‘intrusive’ intelligence techniques.
Read entire article
Research related articles:
1. Senate Homeland Security Committee: Fight Terror on the Web
2. German Court: Cyber-Spying Violates Privacy
3. Homeland Security forecasts 5-year terror threats
4. Ex-spy chief opposes planned new terror laws
5. NSA Security Officer: We Should Just Kill These People
6. Neuroscience, National Security & the “War on Terror”
7. Neuroscience, National Security & the “War on Terror”
8. Surveillance cameras on Toronto transit don’t violate privacy laws
9. Security focused on protesters more than terror
10. Google Says Privacy Doesn’t Exist
11. Scotland Terror Chief: Neo-Nazis as Much a Threat as al-Qaeda
12. Britain’s DNA database violates privacy