Only special courts should be allowed to give the ok on "monitoring devices", just going around and bullying telecom companies to comply or else is what you could called a dictatorship.

Last time I checked we have a justice department that is supposed to be a checks and balances on the other government bodies, but by using these new "laws" and "acts" the people in charge are basically writing their way past these checks and balances. When no one is watching over their shoulder, then who is to stop them from becoming even more corrupt than they are now?

I think this quote applies....

Power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately....

and I think the US and UK governments are reaching for that ultimate power. Scary to think they already have so much control and they want even more.