How much tracking of crims was being done before?
Given that:
A) British public safety figures haven't gone to Hell in a handbasket in the year-and-a-half that the Snowden revelations have been coming out.
B) That GCHQ is completely opaque on who they are targeting and why.
Then I have to wonder how much targeting of criminals was really being done by the GCHQ in the first place.
Seems like more "We're not actually going to provide the public with accountability on the shit we pull, but maybe we can scare them back into compliance" bullshit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
