02 July 2015, The Tablet

Right to life versus the right to privacy


 
In a sense the Tunisian gunman Seifeddine Rezgui was Everyman. He was not known to be a particularly devout Muslim; an internet video shows this healthy young engineering student demonstrating his break-dancing; he wore a Real Madrid shirt. Yet he has murdered 38 innocent holidaymakers of whom at least 30 are thought to be British. As a result he has nearly shut down the Tunisian tourist industry. This is political and economic terrorism at its most cruel and destructive, and the hardest to combat. How many people there are like Seifeddine Rezgui in Britain or elsewhere in Europe, nobody knows, and picking them out is a nightmare for the police and security services. But they have to try.In addition to the obvious difficulties, they also face a level of scepticism and even hostility from
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User Comments (1)

Comment by: Anon
Posted: 04/07/2015 20:45:11

Certainly those who shout loudest in favour of maximum privacy may well have something to hide but I fear the cries against the liberalization of the law are based mainly on what might come to be seen in future as a major root of many of today's problems, namely Political Correctness, offspring of the dreaded Relativism.
Such a shame that here the complainants have not realized that nobody is seriously interested in anyone else's pecadillos unless they have celebrity status. They are far too busy concentrating on themselves. In any case the moaners would probably be perfectly safe since there are rather a lot of hoops to jump through before access is available. . .
Give me life over privacy any time!