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Do you think spy agencies should be able to collect data on foreigners?

e.g. US can collect foreigners and UK can collect foreigners?

Do you think spy agencies should be able to swap data about those foreigners?

Because the two in combination allows the UK to spy on US citizens and give it to the US, without the US needing to spy on its citize s

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Yes, I think spy agencies should be able to spy on foreigners, and swap data. I don't think it's insane for the laws against collection of citizens data to include not trading for citizens data with foreign powers, such that the set of people that the UK and US spy agencies share data on is the disunion of their respective citizens. As with many things that involve crimes of thought or information, it's very hard to implement, and as such you should be careful how you phrase and prosecute, but that's a risk that has to be taken... And the penalties for when it's discovered should be appropriately severe to make up for that.

in response to your first question, yes of course. it's thier job.

w.r.t. your second question, this is where things start to get grippy. see my response to another question referencing "realpolitik". in this context, then whether or not they should becomes a secondary consideration at the policy level.

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