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RE: Snowden Warns About Britain
October 17, 2014 at 6:36 am
(October 12, 2014 at 4:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Apparently you lot are even worse off than we are when it comes to government snooping.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/edwar...in-the-us/
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he UK authorities are operating a surveillance system where “anything goes” and their interceptions are more intrusive to people’s privacy than has been seen in the US, Edward Snowden said.
Speaking via Skype at the Observer Ideas festival, held in central London, the whistleblower and former National Security Agency specialist, said there were “really no limits” to the GCHQ’s surveillance capabilities.
Looks like the crazy surveillance tech on Torchwood wasn't too far off.
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RE: Snowden Warns About Britain
October 18, 2014 at 6:07 am
The UK never really had rights anyways. It's still a monarchy. The crown has the right to dissolve parliament. Citizens can be relocated on a bureaucratic whim. They've had surveillance cameras on every street corner since Thatcher. So this story doesn't surprise me a bit.
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RE: Snowden Warns About Britain
October 18, 2014 at 6:09 am
The Poms also have a censored internet.
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