Unfettered bulk data collection powers presage mass surveillance and a debate about haystacks
10 November 2015
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Note added 5th Jan 2016: my blog of this date augments the text below Many commentators have said that identifying a likely bomber/terrorist is like looking for a needle in a haystack. So what do you do? The choices are: (a) build the largest haystack about all the population because you know that the needle has to be in there “somewhere”; or (b) have the powers to look at all the relevant smaller haystacks that are around when you have
