> It's also quite sad that a big majority of the country is ambivalent of this. Despite having access to this news, many still feel this is okay. Why are people not outside parliament protesting?
People sometimes volunteer to have their DNA taken and matched against the police DNA database when there's been high profile crime of sexual violence.
People just don't care. They think (mostly correctly) that the Government knows everything about them anyway, what does it matter if they get metadata too.
RIPA made things a bit more complicated - it meant that in theory everything now had controls and checks and balances on it. But we know that those were boken, and that the oversight of GCHQ / MI5 / Special Branch / etc was rubber stamping stuff that should not have been happening. But because of RIPA people vaguely think "they get it all with a warrant".
It's important to recognise that approximately zero people care about this, and it's not going to feature in any election manifesto (except for niche parties such as the greens).
Many people don't care that the NHS is being destroyed, and that's a much bigger problem.
What I wonder about is what people are going to do when they find out that maybe it wasn't the EU or immigration that has been causing the problems with the NHS but straightforward bad management by a succession of governments and not so subtle attacks from right wing that can't stand that we have a much loved and successful service that is explicitly socialist.
There's a clear difference between the problems in the NHS today and the problems in the NHS 5 / 10 years ago.
No one who works in health and social care is asking for unconstrained NuLabour style funding sprees. But now that they've made the NHS ruthlessly efficient, and we have NICE, it'd be a good idea to pay for what we know works, rather than weird ideas like 8 - 8 GPs, or 7 day services. (Especially since the information used to push 7 day services is a lie, and we've seen people die as a result.)
People sometimes volunteer to have their DNA taken and matched against the police DNA database when there's been high profile crime of sexual violence.
People just don't care. They think (mostly correctly) that the Government knows everything about them anyway, what does it matter if they get metadata too.
RIPA made things a bit more complicated - it meant that in theory everything now had controls and checks and balances on it. But we know that those were boken, and that the oversight of GCHQ / MI5 / Special Branch / etc was rubber stamping stuff that should not have been happening. But because of RIPA people vaguely think "they get it all with a warrant".
It's important to recognise that approximately zero people care about this, and it's not going to feature in any election manifesto (except for niche parties such as the greens).
Many people don't care that the NHS is being destroyed, and that's a much bigger problem.