Внезапно GCHQ

Директор GCHQ написал огромное таинственное послание в Financial Times.

ft.com -- For our part, intelligence agencies such as GCHQ need to enter the public debate about privacy. I think we have a good story to tell. We need to show how we are accountable for the data we use to protect people, just as the private sector is increasingly under pressure to show how it filters and sells its customers’ data. GCHQ is happy to be part of a mature debate on privacy in the digital age. But privacy has never been an absolute right and the debate about this should not become a reason for postponing urgent and difficult decisions.

Участвовать в общественной дискуссии? Рассказывать истории? Почему вдруг? А как же их хваленое правило никогда ничего не признавать? Не иначе, разведал, что его скоро расстреляют. В заснеженной России Виктор Черкесов писал что-то аналогичное, и тоже в газету Коммерсант.

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