Govt unveils 'snooping' plans
The police and security services will be given new powers to track suspects through their use of emails and websites, the government proposed today.
Tory MP: 'Snooping' proposals are 'excessive intrusion'
"It's the same proposal that Labour came up with in 2009 which at the time was lambasted by the Conservative Party for excessive intrusion into people's private affairs," says Tory MP David Davis, attacking his own Home Secretary's proposals.
"If they really think it's that important," he says, "set up a way of getting this information with a warrant."
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