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UK Parliament's back for Snoopers' Charter. Former head of GCHQ talks to El Reg

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A couple of points.

* where is the oversight to make sure what GCHQ are doing is proportional. "Who watches the watchers?"

and here is where I start to get properly worried about slippery slopes.

" it is enough that the warrant be necessary for the purpose of preventing or detecting serious crime, or (in some cases) preventing or mitigating death, injury or damage to a person’s physical or mental health."

So we go form on the one hand, "serious crime" which can have a nice definition that everyone can at least understand (if not agree) to "mitigating [.....] damage to a person’s [......] mental health" which can mean just about anything the state things is objectionable to just about anyone at just about any time !!.

A complete cop-out

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