
diff -r 48d0a9890adc -r 7ecbf5339d0f handouts/ho07.tex
--- a/handouts/ho07.tex	Thu Feb 11 10:16:23 2016 +0000
+++ b/handouts/ho07.tex	Thu Feb 11 11:25:47 2016 +0000
@@ -59,6 +59,30 @@
 ``privacy'' looks a little bit like the old Wild
 West---lawless and mythical.
 
+We would have hoped that after Snowden, Western governments
+would be a bit more sensitive and enlightned about the topic
+of privacy, but this is far from the truth. Ross Anderson
+wrote the following in his blog about the approach taken in
+the US to lessons learned from the Snowden leaks and contrasts
+this with the new snooping bill that is considered in the UK
+parliament: 
+
+\begin{quote}\it 
+``The comparison with the USA is stark. There, all three
+branches of government realised they'd gone too far after
+Snowden. President Obama set up the NSA review group, and
+implemented most of its recommendations by executive order;
+the judiciary made changes to the procedures of the FISA
+Court; and Congress failed to renew the data retention
+provisions in the Patriot Act (aided by the judiciary). Yet
+here in Britain the response is just to take Henry VIII powers
+to legalise all the illegal things that GCHQ had been up to,
+and hope that the European courts won't strike the law down
+yet again.''
+\end{quote}
+
+\noindent Unfortunately, also big organisations besides
+governments seem to take an unenlightened approach to privacy.
 For example, UCAS, a charity set up to help students with
 applying to universities in the UK, has a commercial unit that
 happily sells your email addresses to anybody who forks out




