Watching the watchers?
What worries me about all this retention, black boxes, meta-data mining and whatnot isn't so much the potential for individual abuse, suppression of democracy and invasion of privacy as much as we seem to be heading to a situation where the regime could prosecute (or at least publicly ruin, that does the job) someone purely on the basis of "computer says jihadi/paedo/boogeyman du jour".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
