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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by pjc50 on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:23AM (#10518695)
preventing surveillance of Parliamentarians' communications

.. except when authorised by the PM. Who recently called the leader of the opposition a threat to national security.

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Re:MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade by SFLemonade on Friday November 06, 2015 @06:54AM (#10519001)
The creepiest implication with this is if you get the wrong person in power at the right time, they might be able to keep their party or interests in power for an atypically long time, given access to these new tools. We all know that keeping one political interest in control for any extended period of time is never good.
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