> You can't defend such dragnet surveillance techniques as 'terrorist prevention'. Of course they can. They'll never be made to tell us who they were targeting

> You can't defend such dragnet surveillance techniques as 'terrorist prevention'. Of course they can. They'll never be made to tell us who they were targeting or what they collected and I'm sure if they need to make a statement the government will lend them a counter terrorism team to stand with for the cameras. It's the easy thing to do, I doubt they'll do anything else if push comes to shove (unless Theresa May needs another anti-extremism news story I guess). I think you were getting at the fact it's a ridiculous response to the supposed threat - I agree, but unfortunately at this point I don't think there's much the government won't do if they can call it terrorist prevention.