William Binney, a former US National Security Agency technical director turned whistleblower, gave evidence to UK MPs in the Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill on January 6.
During his evidence giving, Binney warned MPs that increasing the mass surveillance powers of intelligence agencies “costs lives, and has cost lives in Britain because it inundates analysts with too much data.”
Rather, a targeted approach is necessary. By using targeted surveillance, innocent citizens’ privacy would be protected, and terror attacks would be prevented.
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