Law enforcement agencies lost the public’s trust after disclosures on
government surveillance by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and must
ensure that they strike the right balance between privacy and security,
the UK’s most senior police officer said on Thursday.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of the Metropolitan police in
London, told a conference of senior American police chiefs that
authorities must take care “post-Snowden” to use the most intrusive
surveillance tools available to them “only where necessary”, or “risk
losing them altogether”.
“We need to ensure that where law enforcement accesses private
communications there is a process of authorisation, oversight and
governance that gets the balance right between the individual’s right to
privacy and their right to be protected from serious crime,” said
Hogan-Howe, whose force that takes the lead on police counter-terrorism
efforts in the UK.
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