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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Blanket surveillance is out of proportion


"John Finnie, Justice spokesperson for the Scottish Greens and MSP for the Highlands & Islands, [yesterday] used Topical Questions at Holyrood to question Ministers about the latest revelations concerning mass surveillance."

"Documents released by US whistleblower Edward Snowden show that a policing body called the Scottish Recording Centre was given access to swathes of communications data including phone activity, internet histories and social media behaviour."

John Finnie MSP said:

"This sort of blanket surveillance is out of proportion, inefficient and incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.."

"There is clearly a culture of bulk collection of data that needs reined in. I will continue to challenge such over-reaching activities."

https://greens.scot/news/blanket-surveillance-incompatible-with-human-rights

OK, but how does John Finnie not recognise that blanket surveillance by Named Persons is out of proportion, inefficient and incompatible with the ECHR?