Enhanced surveillance powers provoke ominous warnings

Civil liberties campaigners have criticised a range of enhanced surveillance powers for Britain’s security services contained within the Investigatory Powers Act, which came into law last Thursday.
The bill gives UK security services and police the widest surveillance powers in western Europe and the US after passing through parliament unchallenged but came in for visceral criticism from renegade US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who tweeted: “The UK has just legalised the most extrem