News & events
20-08-2013
As in Russia, the terror threat has become the excuse to curtail our rights
Our surveillance culture was conceived to keep us safe, but is now widely abused. And the checks and balances don't work: John Kampfner, The Guardian, Tuesday 20 August 2013
Think of the capacity of a large football stadium. That is the number of people – 61,000 – who were stopped at entry points into Britain last year under the infamous schedule 7 of the 2001 Terrorism Act (the one used against Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda). Amazingly, the total has actually gone down compared to a few years earlier. Ask yourself, are there really that many people transiting the UK who may pose a terrorist threat?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/20/russia-terror-excuse-curtail-rights