> The key is to have proper oversight. Yes, but if you make it too easy, oversight fails or is worked around with legalese, and the powers are abused at scale.

> The key is to have proper oversight. Yes, but if you make it too easy, oversight fails or is worked around with legalese, and the powers are abused at scale. > Bugging a phone really means illegal/covert operations these days My view here is that it should be difficult - the security services should only be able to intercept someone's communications with a legally obtained warrant to do so (the oversight you mentioned); then powers are far more likely to only be used where the is a credible threat.