UK Home Secretary Theresa May was grilled on Wednesday during the last evidence session held by the Parliamentary committee scrutinizing fresh powers proposed for GCHQ.
Crucially, she was unable to explain to the panel exactly why Blighty's intelligence services need the ability to intercept and retain millions of innocent Britons' data in bulk, as well carry out bulk hacking operations, which would be strongly authorised if draft law – the Investigatory Powers Bill (IPB) – is passed.
While the joint committee was pleased that GCHQ's bulk surveillance and hacking operations are being brought completely within parliamentary reign for the first time, having previously been effected through royal prerogative, the panel noted that the agency's sweeping powers have not yet been justified in operational terms.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/13/theresa_may/
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday January 15 2016, @03:59PM
* there is no footnote
I would assume the person had perfectly good reasons (from their perspective, obviously), just nothing they could actually tell the people and not have a riot on their hands. What is this world coming to when politicians can't even lie effectively to a question they should know will be asked?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 15 2016, @05:51PM
Oh - the missing footie. I put Tommie Q. Citizen, because it's a British story, wouldn't be right to put John Q. Public in there. Then I realized that the story was about a female, changed it to Tammy, then forgot to eliminate the * afterward. You know, the kind of crap senile old fools do all the time. BTW - what were we talking about? ;^(
(Score: 3, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday January 15 2016, @10:45PM
* there is no footnote
You have realised the truth.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.