Theresa May has been the longest-serving home secretary since the 19th century, but her tenure is distinctive for other reasons, too.
Bulk surveillance impedes already over-stretched authorities, who would be better off recruiting more and better-trained investigators and analysts.
The old joke goes “George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not a ‘how to’ manual, but that joke is increasingly less funny as the UK
An emergency law granting police and intelligence services the power to continue accessing private individuals’ phone and internet records is being rushed through parliament.
Theresa May has rejected claims that the UK is a surveillance society, stressing instead the extensive oversight of intelligence and the need, but the ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ has some worried about its privacy implications.