Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said the figures "beggared belief".
"Many of these operations carried out by the police and security services are necessary, but the sheer numbers are daunting," he said.
"It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half a million people a year.
"We have sleepwalked into a surveillance state, but without adequate safeguards. Having the Home Secretary in charge of authorisation is like asking the fox to guard the hen house.
"The government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning and not a blueprint."
NHS Fail Wail
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I think that we can all agree that the UK's response to coronavirus has
been somewhat lacking. In fact, many people asserted that our death rate
was unique...
3 years ago
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It's not the first time he's used that line. Back at the Convention on Modern Liberty, he used it in an intro to the lib dem "Freedom Bill".
Back at the Convention on Modern Liberty, he used it in an intro to the lib dem "Freedom Bill".
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