..couldn't be a more apt name. why anonymous, sir/madam?

Hoping that I can record (with risk of myself getting prosecuted) govt. agents now, at least.

This is one of the most disgusting piece of laws the great democracy of UK has.

Spam detection algorithms (one example, gmail's) are pretty good already. Would be nice to see Twitter/Facebook spammers gets booted via good algorithms.

Google etc. will just change their TOS and ask you to agree. What could be consumers' next steps?

As a somewhat practising experimental scientist, without significant mathematics training, I wouldn't feel at all comfortable gathering/analyzing data and come up with possible improvements in the experiment design or be able to write a paper and defend it.

Makes total sense!

US used to be LOT better in terms of civil rights. Gradual erosion is a pain to watch.