>Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air.
It sounds like the UK government is spying on citizens’ private messages to each other. The article says it was sent only to people he was traveling with on the day of his flight.
This strikes me as extremely authoritarian and scary.
Europeans: why are there not mass protests about this? Is this the kind of world that you actually want to live in? Is it just apathy? Or is this seen as a good thing?