Why shouldn’t the State obtain a warrant when it comes to our communications?

Surveillance powers can play an important role in preventing and detecting serious crime.

But the current framework fails to provide sufficient safeguards to ensure it is conducted in a necessary, proportionate and accountable way – online and offline.

The government’s Draft Investigatory Powers Bill is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape our laws for the better – however current proposals will make us less safe and less free.