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UK: SURVEILLANCE: The Orwellian Re-Branding of Mass Surveillance as Merely Bulk Collection

13 March 2015

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"the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand mass surveillance as bulk collection in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal)."

See the article: The Orwellian Re-Branding of Mass Surveillance as Merely Bulk Collection (The Intercept, link) by Glen Greenwald.

And see: UK Parliament Committee, Calling For Reform, Shows Its Evidence to Justify Mass Surveillance (The Intercept, link)

See also: The Guardian view on surveillance: parliaments slumbering scrutineer: Editorial: The ISC is at last waking up to the facts revealed by Edward Snowden. But the committee still doesnt get it on privacy (Guardian, link): "atrocities thus make the case for better-organised and perhaps better-resourced trailing of particular targets, but certainly not the collating of more data on everyone else. The great difficulty of the agencies appears to be holding on to all the needles they pull out of haystacks, yet the lazy instinct is to demand ever more hay."

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