<story><title>UK intel agencies spy indiscriminately on millions of innocent folks</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/uk-secret-police-surveillance-bulk-personal-datasets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Do not lose sight of the fact that Britain is one of the Five Eyes.&lt;p&gt;Which means that their data sets include everything that the NSA collects.  And they don&amp;#x27;t have pesky (though effectively unenforced) NSA restrictions against spying on Americans.&lt;p&gt;Enjoy your lack of privacy!</text></comment>
<story><title>UK intel agencies spy indiscriminately on millions of innocent folks</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/uk-secret-police-surveillance-bulk-personal-datasets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elthran</author><text>Hacker, yes. News - probably not.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve depressingly come to accept this as part of being British.</text></comment>