Privacy and security can be reconciled
Guardian - comment / 20-01-2010
It is a misperception that the legitimate aim of preventing acts of terrorism would be a trump card that always prevails over privacy and other fundamental rights of the individual. Instead, some measures are, and ought to remain, prohibited because they nullify the right to privacy and therefore conflict with foundational principles of a free society. Further, the most privacy intrusive measures are not always the most effective ones from the perspective of preventing terrorism. As with other fundamental rights, privacy needs to be protected under a rigorous analytical framework that secures that any restrictions are adequately provided for in clear and precise provisions of domestic law, and that they are effective for the purpose they are intended to serve, necessary in a democr...
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