Surveillance must increase after terror attacks, say 2016 candidates
by Tom McCarthy in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#WV4P)
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and others say new monitoring is needed following violence in Paris and San Bernardino - but they disagree on details
Presidential candidates from both parties came together at the weekend to call for beefed-up government surveillance programs in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
The candidates did not agree, however, on what kind of surveillance - new dragnet metadata collection, tools to fight encryption or some even more powerful capability - was needed.
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