GCHQ head says privacy is not an absolute right
US technology companies have become "the command and control networks of choice" for extremists, the new head of GCHQ has claimed. Writing in the Financial Times, Robert Hannigan says some US tech companies are "in denial" about how their services are being misused. He also said UK security agencies needed support from "the largest US tech companies which dominate the web".Mr Hannigan argues that the big internet firms must work more closely with the intelligence services, warning that "privacy has never been an absolute right." What say the |.ers?
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I wrote that Mr Hannigan is an extremist. Everyone who tries to erode civil rights is an extremist. This makes only sense with the second part, that all this is mainly done for copyright protection. Because if there really were a noticeable number of terror acts yearly with a high number of victims, and if internet surveillance really were a viable tool to prevent such terrorism, it would be a sensible thing to do and he would not be an extremist. The extremist part is that he tries to erode the civil and constitutional rights of millions for the protection of the profit of a few.