Related: "Senior politicians from across the political divide have united to call for UK security services to be given greater internet monitoring powers" [1]
The crazy thing is they're trying to claim Nick Clegg is shielding companies rather than the people.
I just can't understand the slightest bit why anyone thinks that snooping and storing everyone's data is a necessary thing to do. They don't even make the wild claim that it'll stop terrorist attacks, they want it to find out who people were talking to after the attacks.
Madness.
And to top it off, you can't easily find a copy of the letter because it's behind the Times' pay wall! Not a single story has a link to the actual letter.