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'New technology' at heart of surveillance plans

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Is the system of oversight on our secret services robust enough to ensure that there is a correct balance between civil liberties and protecting national security? Kim Howells, former chair of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, and former foreign office minister, and Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, examine the issue.


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