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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
This is the whole point though with these new anti-terrorism powers. They can be used for the wrong reasons and the more it happens the easier it will be and soon we will all be under suspicion.
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The remedy for that is to scream loudly whenever such laws are being misused. It's that sort of action that produces precedents, clarifying regulations, etc to specify how the original law may be used.
The fact that this has hit the media is, to me, reassuring. It means that the govt (at whatever level) is being forced to defend its actions, to explain them openly and publicly. The more light is shed on this, the less likely it is that the law will be misused.
(On the other hand, of course, the national govt may approve such use, which would indeed be a real blow to liberty in the UK.)