[TheOtherHobbes]

Governments have been pushing surveillance since the earliest days of the consumer Internet.

The earliest example I can remember is the Clipper Chip. That was dead three years after it was proposed.

This current idiocy - proposed by a PM who promoted a very good friend of the most notorious paedophile in recent history to ambassador, against the recommendations of the civil service - is similarly doomed. Three months to implement huge changes to every OS on the planet? Like that's even remotely likely.