Posted By: James
Wednesday 25th June 2014
Home Secretary Theresa May has warned that Britain's capacity to protect its citizens is facing collapse as surveillance powers granted to police and security services fail to keep up with technology, adding that changes to the law were "quite simply a question of life and death, a matter of national security." Ms May rejected accusations that the security services were engaged in unaccountable mass surveillance of the public and said the growing difficulty of collecting or monitoring communications raised the danger of making the internet "a safe haven for terrorism".
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