So this has been going on since at least 2008... Extremely disappointing but not surprising.[0] What Americans forget is that GHCQ's policies affect us as much or more than the NSA's and that by 'backdoor-ing' crypto, as Cameron & Obama want, we forfeit our privacy to foreign governments as well.

How can democratic society continue to function if the state indulges its interest in journalists' and attorneys' confidential communications without any inhibitions?

This demonstrates that Cameron's pledge to only access laypersons' communication in the most "dire circumstances" (the case he makes for backdooring crypto) is pure rhetoric.

[0] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/06/uk-surveillanc...