Snowdon is a dummy

You're an idiot, what you're posting is very old news. The only new thing is a change of name.
Our armed specialist units are highly trained, unlike in the US where everyone is routinely armed.

Of course you are not free to own firearms

If you think the establishment of the NCA is anything more than a gloried name change you're a ******* idiot. Don't read the papers if you don't understand them.

Your lot looked like an ad for a weedkiller.

They are so corrupt they make the Taliban look like Simple Simon.

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Your lot looked like an ad for a weedkiller.

My lot???????????

Now thanks to Snowdon google is rushing to encrypt all traffic on those cables.

To your knowledge, Bill, has Google ever made any arrangements to share data/to provide backdoor portals with/to the NSA?

Former head of central intelligence James Woolsey tells DW the US would never sign a binding no-spy pact. He also doesn't recall, but can't exclude, that phones of Chancellor Kohl were monitored during his tenure.

US national security letters

US would never sign a binding no-spy pact

Former head of central intelligence James Woolsey tells DW the US would never sign a binding no-spy pact. He also doesn't recall, but can't exclude, that phones of Chancellor Kohl were monitored during his tenure.

American and European spy agencies which snoop on ordinary citizens could be in breach of European law, a report presented to MEPs has said.

Government officials from Britain – which is also facing scrutiny over alleged snooping by its GCHQ spy agency – have insisted that such security issues fall outside the competency of the EU. But the legal study by the Centre for European Policy Studies (Ceps) think-tank and Leiden University found that electronic surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and European intelligence bodies could breach EU law on the rights of citizens. “We are all aware of current justifications which have been given by certain member state governments and law enforcement authorities saying this is national security,” said Sergio Carrera, a senior research fellow at Ceps.

The study, however, found that “member states’ surveillance programmes are incompatible with democratic rule- of-law principles,” he said.

Another great apparatus for moving schleps (taxpayers) money to business ;-)

Foreign Office move delays agreement by 47-member human rights watchdog on inquiry into gathering electronic data

Britain is holding up an agreement on internet freedom among the 47 members of Europe's human rights watchdog after objecting to a probe into the gathering of "vast amounts of electronic data" by intelligence agencies.

In a sign of Britain's determination to protect the work of GCHQ and other intelligence agencies, the government is declining to endorse a political declaration by the Council of Europe that could limit the ability of "security agencies" to gather electronic data.

Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, said that the tactics risked turning Britain into an "arrogant bad boy on the world stage".

Britain intervened during a Council of Europe ministerial conference on Friday in Belgrade – Freedom of Expression and Democracy in the Digital Age – where a 14-page document was due to be signed by the 47 members of the body which established the European Convention on Human Rights.

The document, entitled Political Declaration and Resolutions, says that the Council of Europe should examine whether the gathering of data by intelligence agencies is consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights.

The disputed section of the draft declaration says: "We invited the Council of Europe to ... examine closely, in the light of the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights, the question of gathering vast amounts of electronic communications data on individuals by security agencies, the deliberate building of flaws and 'backdoors' in the security system of the internet or otherwise deliberately weakening encryption systems."
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Britain had no objection to other sections in the draft declaration, presented at the meeting in Belgrade this week, which warned that mass surveillance could undermine or destroy democracy and said that the openness of the internet should be preserved.

On the threat to democracy, the declaration said: "Data can be collected and processed for a legitimate aim including the objectives set out in the Council of Europe's Statute. Any data collection or surveillance for the purpose of protection of national security must be done in compliance with existing human rights and rule of law requirements, including Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

On the threat to democracy, the declaration said: "Data can be collected and processed for a legitimate aim including the objectives set out in the Council of Europe's Statute. Any data collection or surveillance for the purpose of protection of national security must be done in compliance with existing human rights and rule of law requirements, including Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

"Given the growing technological capabilities for electronic mass surveillance and the resulting concerns, we emphasise that there must be adequate and effective guarantees against abuse which may undermine or even destroy democracy."

On preserving internet openness, the declaration says: "We renew our commitment to do no harm to the internet and to preserve its universality, integrity and openness. Any measure, including blocking and filtering, that might interfere with people's freedom to access and communication via the internet must be taken in compliance with international human rights law."