The outgoing Director of GCHQ_Sir Iain Lobban took the opportunity during his valedictory speech today to reflect on his 31 years as part of the UK’s spy agency, with a particular focus on balancing individuals’_right to privacy with the need for access to information. Lobban joined GCHQ_at the end of the Cold War and now oversees a vastly different intelligence landscape than existed 30 years ago._Indeed, now GCHQ comes under far greater press and public scrutiny than it ever has before, primarily as a result of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations about mass surveillance, some of which GCHQ were included in....

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