Originally Posted by heero_yuy

If it's like the anti-terrorism laws it'll be abused. Remember the pensioner being bundled out of the Labour party conference using powers under those laws? You can be sure that all the pebble lensed Arthur Pewty's in local government will be using the eavesdropping results to persecute the popule over the most trivial of offences whilst the real terrorists all use VPNs, proxies and other methods to escape detection.