(Although, in the UK's case, a secret bulk data surveillance regime is in the process of being transmuted into a legislative framework to authorize bulk data surveillance regime via the Investigatory Powers bill — where 'bulk' collection of digital data is considered a 'necessary and proportionate' investigatory tool by the UK Home Office).
As Soetsu Yanagi wrote in "The Unknown Craftsman", his classic 1972 book on folk art, "man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs".
The four risk levels (i.e., "0", "1", "2", "3") identified by the Risk Screening Tool are assigned to different levels of ethical scrutiny, proportionate to the perceived risk (see Table 1).
Weapons used must be proportionate to the opponent and the aim of war, not indiscriminate tools of destruction.
The proposal also encourages platforms to develop "automated detection tools" so they can take what it terms "proactive measures proportionate to the level of risk and to remove terrorist material from their services".
Between October 2012 and December 2013, the add-in version of the tool had been downloaded more than 700 times, and we estimate a proportionate interest in the web app version of the tool.
The best tools are, as before: to nudge British Muslims to act in a timely and proportionate way to manage and nurture their reputation as members of British society.
"RIPA is an essential tool for local authority enforcement which we make limited use of in cases where it is proportionate and there are no other means of gathering evidence," Tim Martin, who is in charge of legal and democratic services for Poole, which is southwest of London, said in a statement.
The PHO Risk Screening Tool was developed to facilitate this process through the systematic consideration of risks and the subsequent assignment of proportionate ethics review.
