Exactly. So why are they doing it? I think it's because they feel they need to be seen to be doing something, because when the next big attack happens, they don't want people to say "why werent you monitoring them?". Trouble is that the next big terrorist attack is going to happen anyway, despite these laws. Terrorist activity wont be organised by email or conventional communications methods that the authorities will be monitoring, terrorists will use much more subtle ways... Just imagine if we were terrorists and we wanted to coordinate an attack. We could first download a multiplayer roulette game (there are thousands to chose from) to our phones and each of the numbers on the board could represent a different target or time to attack. We could communicate in plane site on a public roulette game simply by placing chips on numbers and nobody would be able to tell the difference between our terrorist activity and the other players in the game... Example: Chips placed on number 8 for buckingham palace, then on 5 and 1 for 5th January, then 12 and 30 for the time.... Red for suicide bomb, black for car bomb.... once complete, log off, uninstall the app, smash up the phone and throw it in the river... the authorities wouldnt stand a chance if i ever decided to activate my terrorist group.... (disclaimer, if the palace is bombed on 5th Jan at 12:30 - it wasnt me!!) Meanwhile ... Outside Joes house...