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President Barack Obama has ordered curbs on the use of bulk data collected by US intelligence agencies, saying civil liberties must be respected, but campaigners have said the changes do not go far enough.
We need to update our vision of what an Orwellian use of bulk data might be.
The report also supports continued use of "bulk data collection" (aka mass surveillance) by U.K. intelligence agencies — so long as "strict additional safeguards" oversee its usage and minimize privacy impacts.
And even though EU judges have already made it clear EU Member States cannot establish "general and indiscriminate" data retention regimes, the government is trying to drive a wedge between that finding and matters of national security, arguing that the use of bulk data capabilities is "critical" to national security.
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"It's certainly striking to hear the companies' use of fiery rhetoric to criticize mass collection of bulk data since they themselves are engaging in mass collection of bulk data," said Woodrow Hartzog, who teaches privacy law at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.
"Allowing Section 215 to sunset would result in the loss, going forward, of a critical national security tool that is used in a variety of additional contexts that do not involve the collection of bulk data," he said.
The issue of bulk data collection also divided the panel.
For MI5, storage of bulk data is at their London HQ, Thames House.
"The use of hacking, bulk data retention and a demand for encrypted data to be available in an unencrypted form all have the potential to expose us and make us more vulnerable in this hyper connected, big data controlled times". .
The most recent documents refer to a "more onerous authorisation process" after the prime minister's avowal of the "use of bulk personal data".
The documents have come out as a result of an ongoing legal challenge Privacy International has brought against UK intelligence agencies' use of bulk personal data collection as an investigatory power.
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