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This time, on surveillance, the Americans have it right

Plus: Another sign of how overblown the phone-hacking saga was

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

Britain and America, as George Bernard Shaw is reputed to have said, are two countries divided by their common language. As of this week they are divided by something else, too: their common interest in the fight against terrorism. While David Cameron’s government has announced an Investigatory Powers Bill to beef up surveillance powers, the US Senate voted to allow the surveillance powers in the Patriot Act to expire.

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