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Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians by justinjoshuak on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:41AM (#24187104)
> who recently admitted they spy on their citizens [0]

The linked article is about planned changes that haven't yet been legislated - "Details of the new powers – which will require legislation – are not contained in the strategy"

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Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians by JoeSmithson on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:20AM (#24187480)
I also don't understand why it's necessarily bad...?

Countries face internal security threats. For example, in the UK, the 7/7 bombers were British, ditto the Manchester and London Bridge attacks. In fact most terrorists who attack Britain are British. Are MI5 not meant to spy on Brits?

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