The impartial BBC hasn ' t even so much as written a comment on either law during any point of their process . Demonstrably incorrect . I am no fan of the BBC . In fact , I probably trust the BBC least out of many major ' trusted ' outlets to the point o , but I ' ve followed this for years and the BBC has reported on it plenty of times . Every time Nick Clegg spoke up against it , every time it was sent back by the Lords , it was on the BBC . The time the coalition government rushed the Emergency Data Retention Bill through parliament before the summer receess of 2014 , it was on the BBC ' s main news broadcast on TV . That said , general news was usually tucked away in sections like Tech and Politics , nor was it a headline , so it would go under the noses of people that didn ' t previously care . The few times it has headlined , it was usually in tandem with things like a story about a web ring of paedophiles or terrorists that had recently been caught . The scandalous stories attracting more attention . To say that the mainstream media hasn ' t covered , though it is more of a way of showing how ignorant you have been over the last few years , especially after the Snowden leaks . The Guardian of which I am no fan either and The Independent have had pretty good coverage around it for years too , with the former having published in exess of 2000 articles on the general topic of surveillance in the last 3 years alone . Even The Daily Mail has taken a few swipes .