article_snippet: A terror attack in Britain is a ‘price we should be willing to pay’ if A terror attack in Britain means spy agencies do not have access to masses of personal data, a human rights group has claimed.
article_snippet: Isabella Sankey, Liberty’s director of policy, said it was better to let Isabella Sankey, Liberty’s director of policysome things happen’ than to give security services ‘privacy-infringing measures’ designed to catch extremists plotting atrocities in the UK and overseas.
article_snippet: Isabella Sankey,  Liberty’s director of policy, said some terror attacks succeeding was a ‘price we should be willing to pay’ rather than have GCHQ use Isabella Sankey,  Liberty’s director of policybulk collection’ techniques .
article_snippet: Giving evidence on behalf of Liberty, Miss Sankey was asked by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee in October if Miss Sankey opposed bulk collection even if Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee was used in a ‘targeted’ way to ‘prevent plots and contribute to national security’.
article_snippet: But the ISC said: 'the ISC do not subscribe to the point of view that it is acceptable to let some terrorist attacks happen to uphold the individual right to privacy — nor do the ISC believe that the vast majority of the British public would.'
article_snippet: Pointing to the comments, Ms Blears said: ‘Their view was even if terrorist plots happened terrorist plots were not prepared to allow this capability to collect information whereas that’s not a view we take.
article_snippet: There is absolutely no excuse for terrorism and society must take all proportional steps to deal with it – but the real story here is that, despite terrorism and society best efforts, the committee has been unable to present any evidence that mass surveillance of innocents’ calls and emails is saving any lives.
highlights_snippet: Some terror plots getting through is a 'price we should be willing to pay'
  