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EVERY Facebook message, tweet and email sent in Britain is monitored by spooks, Britain’s spy chief Charles Farr was forced to admit yesterday.
Mass surveillance by Britain’s intelligence agency GCHQ was exposed in a 48-page document published yesterday by campaign groups challenging the practices in court.
It was obtained by Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty International and other groups in their legal bid to reveal the extent of GCHQ’s spying on their online activity.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote