Snowdon is a dummy

Poor Frank as now he know that the UK government have all his sexual video chats with IZZ and others......

It so nice to know of all the resources being spend on spying on the American people and the EU population and even the chat rooms of game programs and not wasted on such unimportant things as the Russian military and Russian leadership as they invade Ukraine.

Those chat videos between Frank and Izza is of must more important.

Labour will on Monday [today] propose substantial changes to the oversight of the British intelligence agencies, including the legal framework under which they operate, in response to the revelations emerging from files leaked by Edward Snowden. ...

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, is preparing to argue that the current arrangements are unsustainable for the government, and that it is damaging to trust in the agencies if ministers continue to hide their heads in the sand.

In a speech that represents Labour's most serious intervention since the controversy about the scale of state surveillance broke last summer, she will say: "The oversight and legal frameworks are now out of date. In particular that means we need major reforms to oversight and a thorough review of the legal framework to keep up with changing technology."

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, by coincidence will also this week make a speech setting out his party's views on privacy and security.
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Labour to overhaul spy agency controls in response to Snowden files

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Labour will on Monday [today] propose substantial changes to the oversight of the British intelligence agencies, including the legal framework under which they operate, in response to the revelations emerging from files leaked by Edward Snowden. ...

The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, is preparing to argue that the current arrangements are unsustainable for the government, and that it is damaging to trust in the agencies if ministers continue to hide their heads in the sand.

In a speech that represents Labour's most serious intervention since the controversy about the scale of state surveillance broke last summer, she will say: "The oversight and legal frameworks are now out of date. In particular that means we need major reforms to oversight and a thorough review of the legal framework to keep up with changing technology."

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, by coincidence will also this week make a speech setting out his party's views on privacy and security.
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Spying will continue.

Frank Apisa wrote:

Spying will continue.

Without any doubts.
But here, it's about privacy rights and legal backgrounds for such. (Which includes the legal basis for spying.)

I just and only wanted to say that in (most) democratic countries there is a legal framework under which spying is done.

And I doubt any of us here are able to reasonably comment on whether individual intelligence communities actually respect the constrains politicians in their states attempt to impose on them.

Frank Apisa wrote:

And I doubt any of us here are able to reasonably comment on whether individual intelligence communities actually respect the constrains politicians in their states attempt to impose on them.

Criminals don't "respect the constrains politicians in their states attempt to impose on them" either.

Are you saying that the Germans are a more honest, trustworthy, and less duplicitous segment of humanity than Americans?

Frank Apisa wrote:

Are you saying that the Germans are a more honest, trustworthy, and less duplicitous segment of humanity than Americans?

I don't know. But what I do know is that any known breaking of laws is punished.

The NSA I guess has pushed the Patriot Act as far as they could, if in the end, it goes to the Supreme Court and they tell them they went too far, they will have to be reigned in, like it or not. Believe it or not, I hope that happens.