Calm Down Dears: State Snooping Is A Price Worth Paying For Our Security

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🗓️ 7 May 2014

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So now we know: our spooks and their spooks are hoovering up and exchanging massive amounts of data on our private lives: not just whom we phone and email but the actual content of our communications; not just which websites we visit but what we choose to buy online. No wonder there’s been such a furore. William Hague has already admitted that the spooks are allowed to pry pretty much where they want and now it’s been revealed that the US National Security Agency allows analysts to search our emails and online chats with no prior authorisation. And the big internet companies – Google, Facebook and so on – have been colluding on how best to keep track of us. Our entire political history has been one of reining in the power of the state and here we are saying to it: come on in and look round. Calm down? You must be joking! That’s the line taken by the blowhards in this debate, screaming about the threat to civil liberties, but are they making a big fuss about nothing? After all we’ve known for years now... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0	Calm down, deers. State snooping is a price worth paying for our security.
1:12.0	This debate took place on the 26th of September 2013
1:16.1	at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
1:19.4	Welcome to all of you tonight. I think it's absolutely thrilling that so many of you decided that this is an issue worth discussing because one of the issues that is most concerned the people who have been publicizing the Snowden revelations in Britain is how little public outcry there
1:35.1	seems to have been on this side of the Atlantic as opposed to in America.
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