Who will be watching you or listening in?

Government plans to allow security service officials at GCHQ to scrutinize who is talking to whom and exactly when the conversations are taking place on email or social media should worry all labour movement activists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2012/apr/02/surveillance-state-coalition-email-social-media
The usual excuses of "terrorism" and "national security" have been trotted out but as the Guardian former security correspondent Richard Norton Taylor noted in the paper as far back as 2002, the government definition of terrorism and national security are and traditionally have been extremely broad, and they have enormous discretion on how they are used.