ABSTRACT
In 1974, the Rolling Stones released their song Fingerprint File. In this song Mick Jagger sings about the file the FBI created about him 1 and states ‘these days it’s all secrecy; no privacy’. 2 Is this statement true? What is the relationship between privacy and the work of intelligence- and security services? Has this relationship changed over the years? The first section of this chapter will give an explanation about intelligence, intelligence gathering and the role of intelligence- and security services in the democratic legal order. 3 The second section deals with the meaning and function of privacy in relation to intelligence. The third section focuses on the classic texts and authors and current dilemma’s (for example accountability and oversight and big data and surveillance). Future challenges will be discussed in the fifth section. Because there will always be new threats, new modus operandi of the agencies as well as their opponents, and new ways of intelligence gathering. The sixth section offers some conclusions and an extensive list of literature. First, we will discuss some basics of intelligence studies.
