GCHQ chief accuses US tech giants of becoming terrorists' 'networks of choice'

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GCHQ chief accuses US tech giants of becoming terrorists ’networks of choice’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/03/privacy-gchq-spying-robert-hannigan

Privacy has never been “an absolute right”, according to the new director of #GCHQ, who has used his first public intervention since taking over at the helm of Britain’s #surveillance agency to accuse US technology companies of becoming “the command and control networks of choice” [#cybernétique] for terrorists.
Robert Hannigan said a new generation of freely available technology has helped groups like Islamic State (#Isis #OEI) to hide from the security services and accuses major tech firms of being “in denial”, going further than his predecessor in seeking to claim that the leaks of Edward #Snowden have aided terror networks.
GCHQ and sister agencies including MI5 cannot tackle those challenges without greater support from the private sector, “including the largest US technology companies which dominate the web”, Hannigan argued in an opinion piece written for the Financial Times (03/11/2014) just days into his new job.
▻http://cryptome.org/2014/11/gchq-14-1103.pdf

#infoguerre #médias_sociaux Cf. ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/306729

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Voir aussi l’édito du Financial Times du 5 novembre 2014 : « It is time to forge a post-Snowden settlement » ▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9658b31a-6417-11e4-8ade-00144feabdc0.html (#paywall)
The terms of that debate should not be hard to define. In democratic states, there must be strong and independent accounting of the way the security services operate. Following Snowden, it is evident that procedures in the US and UK are insufficiently transparent.
That said, US internet companies cannot ignore their responsibilities vis-à-vis national security. These firms do not inhabit some separate planet where they can operate independent of state obligations to defend the public against terrorism. No government can tolerate a situation in which citizens communicate with one another over data networks without any possibility of legitimate surveillance. Mr Hannigan is correct to state that “privacy has never been an absolute right”.
The FT believes the moment has come to redress the balance in the debate over privacy and security. Mr Hannigan’s call for a “new deal” between the intelligence agencies and the tech companies is a good place to start – before another wave of jihadist violence is inflicted on the west.

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Réponse du NYT à l’édito du FT :
But the crocodile tears of the intelligence chiefs overlook the fact that before those barriers were put in place, the United States National Security Agency and Mr. Hannigan’s GCHQ misused their powers for an illegal dragnet surveillance operation. The technology companies are doing their job in protecting people’s private data precisely because the intelligence agencies saw fit to rummage through that data.
Mr. Hannigan’s argument overlooks the many legal avenues intelligence agencies have to seek data. Demanding that the technology companies leave “back doors” open to their software or hardware also potentially assists Chinese, Russian and other hackers in accessing reams of data.
A Spy’s Deceptive Complaints (12/11/2014)
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/a-spys-deceptive-complaints.html

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