It's worrisome especially since UK has started classifying "serious crimes" as crimes that would normally be punishable by 6 months in prison. This greatly expa

It's worrisome especially since UK has started classifying "serious crimes" as crimes that would normally be punishable by 6 months in prison. This greatly expands the ability to "legally" spy on everyone. The fact that the police has almost the same level of access to the mass surveillance tools as the GCHQ does is also extremely worrying, and it's something that should never be allowed in any country that portrays itself as a "democracy." The courts have recently said they can't allow the cops this much power, but May has already pre-empted this with some purposefully half-baked "improvements" to the law, so that it looks like they're changing the law according to the ruling, but in really they're not. Then they'll have to be sued again, which will take a few more years. And then they'll pass some new half-baked improvements, and so on. It's a game they seem more than happy to play and drag out real reforms as much as possible. May for instance knew the EU Court would ban that type of surveillance (the court's top advisor tends to signal how the ruling will go many months ahead), so she rushed IPA through Parliament like a month before the EU Court's decision. It's just goes to show how mischievous these guys are.