On the day it’s announced that Ian Fletcher is to depart from the GCSB, a few thoughts about surveillance …

(click to read at NZ Herald)

(click to read at NZ Herald)

British PM David Cameron is already making the appropriate noises … nicely framed by John Gruber at DaringFireball.net.

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click to read the Independent’s report

And, for context, here’s Mr Fletcher’s rather soothing speech to the 2014 Privacy Forum …