Former MI6 deputy chief: What we're doing is not mass surveillance

John Leonard
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Nigel Inkster argues that there is nothing new in what the spies are doing and says the likes of Google are far worse

Interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, ahead of an ISC announcement expected later today,  Jimmy Wales of the Wikimedia foundation, which yesterday launched legal action again...

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