May Says 'Snooper's Charter' Powers Vital
Updated: 4:28pm UK, Wednesday 25 June 2014
Home Secretary Theresa May has warned the internet risks becoming "a safe haven for terrorism and criminality" as she renewed her call for new surveillance powers.
She argued it was the loss of capability to the security services rather than concerns over mass monitoring, which posed the greatest threat to society.
The Secretary of State also repeated criticism of the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who leaked tens of thousands of top-secret documents containing details of the activities of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's listening post GCHQ, arguing his actions put the UK at increased risk.
Mrs May, speaking at the Lord Mayor's Defence and Security Lecture at Mansion House, in the City of London, said she will continue to argue in favour of changing the law to extend powers for police and security services to access emails and social media.
Last year, the Government's Communications Data Bill, branded a "snooper's charter" by critics, was shelved in the face of opposition from the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats.
Reopening the debate over access to communications data, Mrs May said: "The real problem is not that we have built an over-mighty state but that the state is finding it harder to fulfil its most basic duty, which is to protect the public.
"That is why I have said before and I will go on saying that we need to make changes to the law to maintain the capabilities we need.
"Yes, we have to make sure that the capabilities can only be used with the right authorisation and with appropriate oversight.
"But this is quite simply a question of life and death, a matter of national security.
"We must keep on making the case until we get the changes we need."
The Home Secretary revealed at least 20 cases had been dropped by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in six months as a result of missing communications data - including 13 threat-to-life instances involving children.
She was speaking after the UK's top counter-terrorism officer, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Cressida Dick, warned the powers of the police to combat terrorism were being ''degraded by the day'', because of the failure of surveillance powers to keep up with new communications technologies.
Mrs May: "It is much harder now - there is more data, we do not own it and we can no longer always obtain it.
"I know some people will say 'hurrah for that' - but the result is that we are in danger of making the internet an ungoverned, ungovernable space, a safe haven for terrorism and criminality.
"I know some people like the thought that the internet should become a libertarian paradise, but that will entail complete freedom not just for law-abiding people but for terrorists and criminals. I do not believe that is what the public wants.
"Loss of capability - not mass surveillance nor illegal and unaccountable behaviour - is the great danger we face."
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