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Surveillance, privacy, and the British press

In the surveillance versus privacy debate that followed Snowden’s revelations, the UK government and the British press have been rather strange bedfellows.

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Demotix/Jonathan Nicholson. All rights reserved.
Demotix/Jonathan Nicholson. All rights reserved.

Demotix/Jonathan Nicholson. All rights reserved.

In June 2013, the Guardian newspaper began to publish Edward Snowden’s account of mass data collection by the British and American governments. The revelations which followed led to public and political outcry across the world. But the reaction from the British press was almost more extraordinary than the leaks themselves.