GCHQ head says privacy is not an absolute right

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story imageUS 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?

Re: Mr Hannigan is an extremist (Score: 1)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-06 19:22 (#2TY1)

Do you understand how terrible that argument sounds?
And how terrible is it when it is true?
"They aren't protecting us from terrorists, they're trying to make us pay for movies and music! We want them for free!"
You added "We want them for free". I never said that. But yes, if I have to choose between free movies, or a necessary police state to enforce copyrights, I know what I choose.
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