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by GordonS 3493 days ago
>and life made difficult to anyone who calls bullshit on these kind of intrusive laws

That started over a week ago.

A spokewoman for the Home Office said this when asked about ordinary people circumventing logging by using a VPN:

"Terrorists and serious criminals will always seek to avoid detection"[1]

In that context, this is basically implying that anyone who values their privacy must be a terrorist or criminal. It scares me where we are going with this...

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38068078