A less-than-reassuring move from the government, to rein in the local little Hitlers who've been - what a surprise - using the RIPA surveillance law and facilities to perform critical anti-terrorism and national security tasks. One excellent example is covert tracking for 3 weeks of a family wrongly suspected of declaring the wrong catchment area! Of course, we should have guessed that a loaded word like "catchment" would come into its own. And there are scores of doggy-poop and putting bins out on the wrong day applications as well. Ou sont les Winston Smiths d'antan?
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