Recent government proposals to allow increased police and intelligence agencies' monitoring of email and social media communications have angered civil liberties campaigners who claim they are a breach civil liberties.
Join us as we discuss to what extent security services should be able to monitor our cyber activity. Is this form of cyber surveillance a threat to the public's civil liberties or necessary to keep them safe? Can a balance be struck?
With: Heather Brooke, a political and crime reporter in the US before moving to Britain where she is now a freelance journalist and freedom of information campaigner.
Jamie Bartlett, head of the violence and extremism programme at Demos. His primary research interests lie in terrorism, radicalisation and extremism, conspiracy theories and integration policy.