Silky Carlo
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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It is wrong in principle for the government to want to be able to spy on millions of people at one time.
It's not wrong for the government to want exceptional powers to invade an individual's privacy if they're a suspect of serious crime.
And the security intelligence agencies already have exceptional powers, very strong powers, and rightly so, to be able to break into the phones of targets.
But that's not what this is about.
This is about
creating a backdoor into a product that's used by around 35 million people in the UK that allows the government to then dip into phones whenever it likes.
And that's very different.
That's a mass surveillance power.
It's completely unprecedented in a democracy.
And it puts the privacy and security of millions of us at risk.
And it's incredibly dangerous.
And what's been worrying for a long time now is that the British government has,
has created powers for extraordinary levels of mass surveillance of our phones, of all of our electronic communications, our internet browsing.
And the agencies seem to have developed a culture of just collect it all.
That's what we saw in the Snowden revelations from the NSA whistleblower over 10 years ago, is that this kind of culture had emerged of mass surveillance and eye-watering powers to collect all of our data all of the times.
Well, let's just remember as well what was exposed just over 10 years ago is that even our own domestic agencies like GCHQ were, for example, creating web browsing profiles of every single visible user on the internet.
When we look at something like Apple's product being broken, it's incredibly worrying because the way in which we use them these days...
The amount of private and sensitive data that we will use, the role that it plays in business and in our everyday lives means that if data is compromised en masse, there are national security consequences.
I mean, it's really quite incredibly serious, let alone the consequences for individuals.
And the powers that the agencies have also extends to, for example, accessing journalistic material and journalistic sources.
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