Speaking to the BBC the article quotes Zimmerman as saying “The UK is risking sliding unwittingly into a police state because of the growing use of surveillance technology”.

Zimmerman is famous for inventing the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) e-mail encryption technology.

Interestingly he goes on to say that electronic surveillance of UK citizens by the authorities is becoming too easy.  He says that if surveillance were made harder then reduction of civil liberties would be more seriously debated.

Via BBC