Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed the extent and methods of mass surveillance used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s GCHQ spy agency, has called on students to oppose plans to increase surveillance powers. Snowden was speaking in his role as Rector of the University of Glasgow, at the opening of Freshers’ Week, when new students arrive. He said: “There are cynical people in government, in private society, in the press who argue that everything we do as civil society, a community, as an academic sector, as a common human family doesn’t amount to much. We change things, but they’re not so big. Reforms are made, but they aren’t really determinative. I would argue that that is completely false,” said Snowden. He was referring to the ruling by the IPT ruling of February 2015 that GCHQ’s access to (and use of) private communications swept up in bulk by the National Security Agency (NSA) breached human rights laws. This was the first time in its 15-year history that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled against an intelligence agency. Snoopers’ Charter on the Cards However, David Cameron’s government is set to introduce the Investigatory Powers Bill that will pave the way for legislation to give police and the security services far more wide-ranging capabilities. Also known as the Snoopers’ Charter, the law would allow […]
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