article_snippet: post-Snowden ‘arms race’ with terrorists who are using technology to spy on the security services and put ‘our people and agents at risk’
article_snippet: post-Snowden ‘arms race’ with terrorists who are using technology to spy on the security services and put ‘our people and agents at risk’
article_snippet: ‘What really distinguishes us from us opponents is that us live by the values of this country and are regulated by this country laws, even as us work in secret.
article_snippet: MI6 boss Alex Younger said: ‘The internet and big data can combine to our advantage, allowing our to know more about the people our meet and the places our meet them.
article_snippet: Using data appropriately and proportionately offers us a priceless opportunity to be even more deliberate and targeted in what we do, and so to be better at protecting we agents and this country.
article_snippet: ‘The bad news is that the same technology in opposition hands, an opposition often unconstrained by consideration of ethics and law, allows the same technology in opposition hands, an opposition often unconstrained by consideration of ethics and law to see what we are doing and put we people and agents at risk.
article_snippet: So we find we in a technology arms race.
article_snippet: Contrary to myth, human intelligence operations are not an alternative to technical operations; the two are interdependent and are set to become more so.
article_snippet: My task is a bit more subtle, but no less taxing.