Privacy activists, human rights campaigners and former US security officials have expressed fears over the prospect of Donald Trump controlling the vast global US and UK surveillance network. Privacy and human rights campaigners in the US and UK say a Trump presidency will tip the balance between surveillance and privacy decisively towards the former. The UK surveillance agency GCHQ is so tied up with America’s NSA, often doing work on its behalf, it could find itself facing a series of ethical dilemmas. On the campaign trail, Trump made an ambiguous remark about wishing he had access to surveillance powers. The temptations to use secret NSA surveillance powers, some still not fully revealed, will present themselves to him as sirens.”One specific surveillance measure Trump proposed on the campaign trail was surveilling mosques and keeping a database of Muslims.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2016 17:34 UTC