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| Surveillance powers: New law needed, says terror watchdog | |
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| A new "comprehensive" law is needed to cover security services' powers to monitor online activity, the UK's terror watchdog has said in a report. | A new "comprehensive" law is needed to cover security services' powers to monitor online activity, the UK's terror watchdog has said in a report. |
| David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a "clean slate" was needed in the approach to intrusive powers used by authorities to combat serious crime. | David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a "clean slate" was needed in the approach to intrusive powers used by authorities to combat serious crime. |
| The current framework was "fragmented" and "obscure", he said. | The current framework was "fragmented" and "obscure", he said. |
| The 300-page report was commissioned by the government last year. | |
| The report, titled A Question Of Trust, recommended that: | |
| Mr Anderson said: "Modern communications can be used by the unscrupulous for purposes ranging from cyber-attack, terrorism and espionage to fraud, kidnap and child sexual exploitation. | |
| "A successful response to these threats depends on entrusting public bodies with the powers they need to identify and follow suspects in a borderless online world. But trust requires verification." |