I'm sure there have been acts, maybe the Covert Human Intelligence Act, or Investigatory Powers Act, which listed departments who were given a free run at some

I'm sure there have been acts, maybe the Covert Human Intelligence Act, or Investigatory Powers Act, which listed departments who were given a free run at some fairly serious levels of surveillance in the UK, departments like the Food Standards Agency of all people. I can make my bed to some extent with a very few small, human-resource limited departments conducting surveillance. But we seem to be growing an entire public sector willing to recreate the Stasi and its wider influence. I'm not sure what the fix is, it isn't particularly a new phenomenon and it only ever seems to expand.