The Director of the Security Intelligence Service has spoken out this week about her agency's role in the jihadi brides controversy. Rebecca Kitteridge has also addressed a Privacy Act exemption, that allows the SIS and the Government Communications Bureau to request or obtain personal data from both government departments and private companies. Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.
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