Arbitrary detaining 50,000 people per year, no right to remain silent, arrest and imprisonment if you refuse an arbitrary search...<p>Yup sounds like I need to avoid the UK too!
>...the data is considered to have been “legally volunteered” under the Terrorism Act... the person searched “will not be directly told their phone is downloaded.”<p>Well isn't that a choice bit of doublespeak.
A dark trend in a loss of civil liberties -- combined with the all-recording record of electronic devices, this is likely to be an explosively bad combination for those dedicated to human freedom :(