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Former Tory shadow home secretary David Davis yesterday joined a parliamentary protest against wholesale government snooping on users of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Mr Davis signed a Commons early day motion tabled by Labour MP Tom Watson demanding an end to the mass surveillance.
Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron also signed the motion, along with Plaid Cymru parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd and Green MP Caroline Lucas.
Home Secretary Theresa May attempted to dismiss growing protests by claiming that “there is no programme of mass surveillance and there is no surveillance state.”
In a lecture at Mansion House on Tuesday she said it was “nonsense” to accuse spy centre GCHQ of using unlawful hacking to spy on citizens.
Civil liberties groups raised the alarm after the director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism claimed last week that GCHQ can legally snoop on Britons’ web activities without specific warrants — because the computer servers are based in the US.
