sleepwalking into a dystopian future
That's about the only sensible thing said, the rest just sounded like people that don't quite understand what it is they are looking at, what exactly they are going to get or how they are going to get it. They don't even know what they already have.
e.g. “protects personal data processed by our intelligence agencies. We live in a time of heightened and unprecedented terrorist threat… The intelligence services already comply with robust data-handling obligations and, under the new Investigatory Powers Act, are subject to careful oversight.”
What oversight? A home secretary signing a piece of paper? What "robust data-handling obligations"? They have been cracking on with this data for years under the 1984 Telecommunications Act and are only updating it now because they got caught.
As I read the article about what they said my mind automatically pictured them all dressed as clowns, no idea why.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
