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.
Aims of Theresa May's surveillance plans
This isn't about the authorities being able to see what you've written in texts or Facebook messages or emails - it's about them keeping the data that says you've sent those messages.
The details won't be available to council or local authorities - the police and Home Secretary are saying that this is about targeting criminals very specifically:
But civil libertarians and back-bench MPs (see Tory MP David Davis) are very outspoken about what they're calling a 'snoopers' charter'.
They're concerned it might be a slippery slope towards targeting innocent people or those who've committed minor crimes.
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