Electronic snooping ‘small price to pay’ against terror: expert


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 24 Mar 2016

Backlit keyboard is reflected in screen of Apple Macbook Pro notebook computer in Warsaw February 6, 2012. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Files (REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE)

HONG KONG: Terrorism will cast a continuing shadow over future generations and government electronic surveillance is a small price to pay to combat it, a leading historian said on March 23, a day after the carnage in Brussels. 

British author and journalist Sir Max Hastings gave a robust defence of electronic intelligence-gathering in what he called a new world that would never know absolute security. 

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