There is no emergency that justifies rushing this urgent new “security” bill through parliament in the last few days before its summer break but it could nevertheless prove a major opportunity to bring the relentless rise of the surveillance state under democratic control.The opportunity lies in the fact that in order to ensure the continued access of the police and security services to the personal internet and phone-use tracking data held by the telecoms companies, they have had to concede important privacy and civil liberty safeguards.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/emergency-surveillance-law-liberal-moment-bogus