The Power of Knowledge is a Real Crazy Thing and Delivers Maddeningly Unintended Consequences
So, GCHQ and MI5 are ultimately responsible and accountable for all abhorrent behaviour of folk using communications devices, the metadata and/or content of which they can so easily, apparently, access and interpret/understand ‽ .
Is that a perversely convenient, government of the day, 'Stay out of Jail Free" card which can be played by assorted rogue elements which/who may have thought to act as with impunity?