Not really.

I’d be very surprised, not to mention impressed, if anyone wants to read my texts at all, even the people to whom they are addressed.

Yet the lead item on the BBC News today has been this: that the government, with the full collaboration of the Opposition, are planning to rush through legislation to countermand the ruling from the European Court in April that data communications companies no longer need to retain call data for two years.

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