Around 250 leading academics from around the world have decried the online spying activities of U.S. and European intelligence services in an “Academics Against Mass Surveillance” manifesto<http://academicsagainstsurveillance.net/>, published on Friday. The signatories work in a variety of fields, including human rights, law, privacy, sociology, security and media. One, Cambridge University Head of Cryptography Ross Anderson, also gave an interview<http://www.forbes.com/sites/tamlinmagee/2014/01/03/cambridges-head-of-cryptography-i-would-abolish-mi5/> to *Forbes *in which he called for the abolition of the UK Security Service, also known as MI5, arguing that national security should be a job for the police. In December more than 500 of the world’s leading authors also banded together<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/surveillance-theft-worlds-leading-authors> in a coalition dubbed Writers Against Mass Surveillance<http://www.change.org/petitions/a-stand-for-democracy-in-the-digital-age-3> .
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/03/academics-band-together-to-plead-for-online-privacy/
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