On 01/08/2019 11:36, newshound wrote:

Gareth's stuff above is a bit tinfoil hat to me

Civil liberties, my dear chap.

But you raise an interesting concern, and that it
the tendency of the plodderies to seize all
computers and phones on the merest pretext and
thereby completely destroying your well being
in a digital world.

There has to be a way of maintaining one's
well being despite the unwarranted attacks
by the plodderies.