yep and I don’t recall the daily mail (this is london) or the Torygraph complaining back then (nor do the media admit to the covert and unauthorised use of celebs phone call records obtained through disgruntled employees at telecoms companies…)

The Tories plans are even worse, just returning to the blanket authorisation for cops to use surveillance..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/12/conservatives.police