My prediction with this is that they will try to force the international mega-corporations to comply, they will claim it is too expensive and complex to implement and so they must stop trading with the UK. Once it is bye bye Google and bye bye Apple we'll see some action going. This is what I was telling you about ThatFanficGuy
It's just been getting worse and worse and worse in recent years. The States too. People were horrified at the Stasi operations but am I wrong thinking that today's mass surveillance - the NSA and five eyes in particular - is excessively more far-reaching than anything the Stasi did?
I take heart in the simple fact that the NSA is becoming less and less effective as they wallow in deeper and deeper data. They already can't do anything practically valuable with the data they have, and they are scooping up terabytes more every month. My hope is that eventually the security apparatuses in the USA will be so inundated with data that they will spend entire lifetimes spinning in completely ineffectual circles. See the movie "Brazil" for a preview of what working at the NSA will be like in 3 years. In the mean time, the rest of us will go about our daily lives, constantly unconsciously creating a deeper and wider stream of data as we move through the IoT and BYOD-enabled world... trillions of utterly useless datapoints tracked and measured and quantified by grey bureaucrats locked away in damp, flickering-neon lit underground bunkers, ever-digging for that one pre-crime correlation that will allow them to catch a crime before it happens... or did it? Armies of less-than-junior grade functionaries will be tasked with the almost constant replacement of blown RAM, hard drive swapping, motherboard hot-swapping, and power supply replacement, in football-field sized datacenters, and generating a waste stream that piles up like Wall-E's own view of heaven. The government and security apparat is drowning in its own filth, unable to swim to shore.