Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Terror

The Obama administration changed many things in its approach to dealing with the threat of terrorism, but has not confronted larger questions of the limits of government power to spy on its citizens. In Britain, a new government has scrapped proposals for an identity card system, yet remains at the forefront of video surveillance and has one of the largest DNA databases in the world. Existing rules have proven inadequate to the task of regulating the new surveillance powers. New rules are required.