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Government

Jan. 17, 2014

Freedom not to be spied on, not freedom to spy

The remedy already exists; it is our role as lawyers to find the answer to the question, to use the laws to work out how to protect our freedom. By Mark Lewis


By Mark Lewis


Technology is necessarily ahead of the law relating to technology. That is so, whatever country you are in.


Most of us carry with us a tracking device and a computer that is more powerful than the monstrosities on sale 20 years ago. We celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web soon whilst only now realizing that the Web has intruded on our rights in a way that we thought only possible in the former Soviet Union.


So whi...

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