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"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
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"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."

"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."

"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."

"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."

"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
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