Though the administration is also on the verge of getting broad powers to destroy the entire Internet on national security grounds, President Obama is also seeking Congressional approval for a bill that would grant him virtually limitless power to wiretap online communications as well. The bill would require every single online service with even a peripheral capability of allowing for communication... 

Conservative leader David Cameron warned today that Labour has created a ‘control state’ with sweeping powers to intrude into people’s private lives. Officials now had more than 1,000 reasons to knock on people’s doors and demand to enter their home, he said. That was more like a ‘foreign dictatorship or bygone age’ than a modern democracy. Mr Cameron also attacked...