Slashdot points to a Times article saying that “The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. ”

This of course doesn’t sit well with privacy advocates.  It reminds me of the statement in the Canadian Privacy Commissioner’s annual report on the Privacy Act that:  “The Orwellian dystopia was predicated on a totalitarian society. In our democracy, benevolent intentions appear to be pushing us toward a surveillance society.”